Zimbabwe looks just as it did in the bad, old Mugabe days – Washington Post

EDINBURGH — Zimbabweans were overjoyed when Robert Mugabe was finally ejected as president after nearly four decades of crushing rule. But, a year on, depression has set in. Zimbabwe, as The Washington Post tells its readers, looks like it did in the Mugabe era. President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised a better economy, freedom of speech and free and fair elections – but none of this came to pass. Instead, Zimbabweans are poorer than ever and inflation is rising rapidly. Violence has marred Mnangagwa's term, too. – Jackie Cameron

By Thulasizwe Sithole

Zimbabweans shed euphoric tears when Robert Mugabe, then 93, was forced out of office by the military after 37 years as president. But one year later, Zimbabwe's optimism has dimmed, reports The Washington Post.

"For now, the dreams are stifled. An already ruined economy has been further ravaged by new inflation. Rapprochement with the West, which shunned Zim­babwe for decades and held back investment and job growth, has been hesitant at best. And the results of the first post-Mugabe elections are still contested four months later by the main opposition party," it says.

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