Category: Main Headline

LONDON — Newly released UK government records reveal that British officials once seriously debated how to end Robert Mugabe’s long and turbulent rule in Zimbabwe — including briefly considering the unthinkable: military intervention. Declassified documents from the UK National Archives show that in 2004, at the height of Zimbabwe’s political and economic crisis, British diplomats described President Robert Mugabe, then 80, as “depressingly fit” — a testament to his surprising vitality despite age and mounting global criticism. At the time, Zimbabwe was already deep in turmoil: rampant hyperinflation, widespread...