Robert Mugabe, 92, backed for 2018 Zimbabwe election

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.

The ruling Zanu-PF party announced its support in the south-east town of Masvingo, where the party's youth wing even proposed that Mr Mugabe should rule for life with broad powers.