Zimbabwe's 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe should run "as a corpse" in next year's election if he dies before the vote, his wife said Friday. The president, who will turn 93 on Tuesday, has slowed down on public engagements while his 51-year-old wife has become increasingly visible in politics. Mugabe has been in power since white minority rule ended in Zimbabwe in 1980 after years of war. Grace Mugabe warned associates of Mugabe from the era of guerrilla war against white rule that they can't take power because they also are old. "Anyone who was with Mugabe in 1980 has no right to tell him he is old.

Source: ABC News February 17, 2017 14:24 UTC