Former Zimbabwe ambassador found dead

Harare - Former Zimbabwean ambassador to the United States and Zanu PF stalwart Amos Bernard Midzi has died. 

 

Midzi, 62, was found dead in his car at his Marirangwe farm, about 60 kilometres south of the capital, Harare, on Tuesday morning.

National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba could not immediately confirm the death of the former Energy and Power Development minister, but said the police were at the scene investigating the cause. 

“I will give you a full statement later,” Charamba said.

Zimbabwe: President Robert Mugabe was ‘fast asleep':- Nigeria

The cheeky Nigerian journalists who recently embarrassed President Robert Mugabe when he attended the inauguration of that country’s new leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, say the nonagenarian was “fast asleep” just before they accosted him so he looked confused.

 

In a hard-hitting posting on Facebook last week by Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara — the online news agency that promotes citizen journalism and reports mainly on corruption and human rights abuses on the continent, and which roasted Mugabe while he was in Abuja — the journalists appeared to rub salt in Mugabe’s wounds.