Contrasting ways of accepting the past were seen this week when two mass murderers, suffered very different fates.

The head of the World Health Organisation has today rescinded his previous decision to appoint of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe as a "goodwill ambassador".

Zimbabwe police have used batons, tear gas and water cannons against anti-government protesters, despite a court order that police should not interfere with the demonstration in the capital Harare.

Zimbabwe’s 91-year-old President Robert Mugabe read out an old speech at the opening of parliament without seeming to notice, an error which the main opposition quickly used to question whether Africa’s oldest leader was still of a sound mind.