Dreams fade in Zimbabwe of an end to tyranny

Following Zimbabwe's elections, Robert Mugabe has lost control of parliament but is clinging to the presidency. The results of the presidential poll have still not been announced, and may never be...

Just under a fortnight ago, Zimbabwe's elections raised hopes that Robert Mugabe's tyranny was "near its end, and might even end peacefully", said The Times. "Those hopes now look forlorn." The 84-year-old has lost control of parliament but is clinging to the presidency. The results of the presidential poll have still not been announced and may never be.

Mugabe may be "flailing around like a wounded beast" but it would be "foolish to underestimate his powers of recuperation", says The Guardian. After all, he has managed to hang on for 28 years.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.