UK officials grew so frustrated by the challenges of dealing with an ageing but “depressingly fit” Robert Mugabe in 2004 that they weighed up the pros and cons of using military force to remove the Zimbabwean leader from power, newly released documents reveal.
Although quickly discounted, the option was listed alongside others as officials grappled over how to respond to a multi-faceted crisis in the southern African country that had once been a British colony.
Zimbabwe was suffering hyperinflation, the sometimes violent occupation of white-owned farms and election rigging and harassment of the opposition by Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party.
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