Zimbabwe debates nationalization, Mugabe future
Zimbabwe’s parliament opens a new session this week to debate radical plans to nationalize foreign firms and a law empowering the house to name President Robert Mugabe’s likely successor without a national vote. Mugabe, the southern African state’s sole ruler since independence from Britain in 1980, will on Tuesday officially open the last session of the House of Assembly and the upper Senate ahead of general polls due by next March. Full Story