Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has celebrated his 93rd birthday surrounded by thousands of supporters in a defiant show of strength after nearly four decades in power.

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, who turns 93 in February, has been endorsed as the ruling party's candidate in a national election scheduled for 2018.

Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe arrived home from a weeks-long holiday looking sprightly, quashing rumours that he had a heart attack.

Vice-captain Kevin O’Brien has been named in the Ireland squad to tour Zimbabwe and Namibia in October.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe marked his 91st birthday by speaking for more than an hour on his feet, delivering a defiant speech in which he threatened to take over land and animal sanctuaries still in the hands of whites.

When Zimbabwe’s veteran president Robert Mugabe suavely hosted journalists at State House on the eve of last month’s election, there was only one question that caught him off guard.

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe claims his party won “a resounding mandate” from voters to complete a sweeping black empowerment programme to take over foreign and white-owned assets.

Lawyers for Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have filed an appeal with the Constitutional Court against the election results that gave President Robert Mugabe 61% of the presidential vote.

Zimbabwe’s neighbour Botswana has said disputed elections won by president Robert Mugabe did not meet acceptable standards and has warned southern African nations against violating commitments to democracy by accepting the result.

Zimbabwe’s electoral panel declared that President Robert Mugabe has won re-election by a landslide, a result that could exacerbate tensions in the country.

President Robert Mugabe won the Zimbabwe presidential election with 61% of the vote, compared to 34% for challenger Morgan Tsvangirai, election officials said.

Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai dismissed the election in Zimbabwe as a farce after his rival President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed a landslide victory that would secure another five years in power for Africa’s oldest head of state.

The main challenger to Zimbabwe’s long-time president, Robert Mugabe, says the election there is “null and void” due to alleged violations in the voting process.

Robert Mugabe’s party says it has withdrawn an unauthorised message on its Twitter feed claiming a resounding victory in Zimbabwe’s national elections.

Robert Mugabe has threatened to seize British businesses in retaliation for Western economic sanctions targeting him and his supporters over alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.

A coalition government minister dismissed a proposal by Robert Mugabe’s party to bring British and American business chiefs before Zimbabwe’s media to denounce their countries’ sanctions.

Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe said today he will retaliate against Western economic curbs imposed on his party.

ZIMBABWE’S president Robert Mugabe said he planned to regain his hold over the country he has ruled for nearly three decades.

Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe said he planned to regain his hold over the country he has ruled for nearly three decades.

The United Nations’ torture investigator blamed Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe for banning him from entering the country today.

Zimbabwe police raided a house used by executives of prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party, saying they were searching for weapons, the country’s finance minister said today.

ZIMBABWE’S prime minister yesterday withdrew, at least temporarily, from a coalition government with hard-line President Robert Mugabe, setting back already troubled efforts to end Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises and international isolation.

Zimbabwe’s prime minister is to boycott the country’s troubled unity government over the “persecution” of a top aide being tried on trumped up coup charges.

IN a bid to end feuding between Zimbabwe’s coalition partners, South African president Jacob Zuma met president Robert Mugabe and other leaders and appeared cautiously optimistic that their differences could be resolved.

ZIMBABWE’s government has ordered all state schools to slash their fees as it struggles with an economic crisis desperately crying out for massive foreign aid, a local official newspaper said yesterday.

Zimbabwe’s prime minister has left the country for medical treatment after he was injured in a car crash that killed his wife, state media reported today.

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday said a national unity government was “the only way out” of Zimbabwe’s crises and urged the international community to support it.

Zimbabwe's new prime minister today blamed the arrest of one of his top aides on factions who want to destroy the country's coalition government.

Hopes of a smooth transition for Zimbabwe's power-sharing government were dashed today when a leading member of the party opposing president Robert Mugabe was arrested.

ZIMBABWE: President Robert Mugabe’s party said yesterday it is prepared to form a government on its own if the opposition won’t join it — a move certain to anger the West.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe today risked a Western backlash by declaring he was ready to form a government on his own if the opposition refused to join him in power-sharing.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe today dismissed calls by Britain and the US for him to step down as “stupid”.

President Robert Mugabe said his party should be preparing for early elections - and he wants no repeat of his March loss.

A defiant Robert Mugabe today boasted that no other African country had the courage to remove him from power.

SOUTH AFRICAN president Kgalema Motlanthe urged Zimbabwe’s political leaders to show “maturity” as they entered crunch talks yesterday aimed at saving their troubled power-sharing deal.

African leaders grappled today with a long-simmering crisis in Zimbabwe and a new humanitarian catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

ZIMBABWEAN president Robert Mugabe has sworn in two vice presidents ahead of talks on forming a cabinet, a government official has said, a move that could further endanger power-sharing negotiations.

Zimbabwe began officially trading in foreign currency today in an admission that its own has collapsed.

Britain today gave a cautious welcome to a power-sharing deal signed today between political rivals in Zimbabwe.

Opposition MPs heckled and jeered Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe today as he opened the country’s parliament.

ZIMBABWE’s opposition won the vote for speaker of the first parliament since disputed elections in March — apparently claiming votes even from the ruling party of autocratic President Robert Mugabe yesterday amid stalled talks over sharing power.

The candidate for Zimbabwe’s main opposition party was given the top job in parliament today after MPs were sworn in some five months after they were elected.

Two Zimbabwe opposition politicians were arrested today as they entered parliament to be sworn in, their party said.

Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe intends to open parliament next week for the first time since MPs were elected four months ago, threatening to undermine power-sharing talks.