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From tweets to streets, Zimbabwe social media anger erupts into anti-Mugabe protests
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Organisers of a general strike against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe pledged on Thursday to continue action until he falls, as a spontaneous social media movement has coalesced into the biggest uprising against his rule in nearly a decade. Zimbabweans have been using the Internet in recent weeks to mobilise…
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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe back home after heart attack rumors
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned home late on Friday after a month-long holiday in the Far East, just over a week after the presidency dismissed rumors that Africa's oldest president had suffered a heart attack and collapsed. Mugabe, who turns 92 on Feb. 21, is the only leader that…