Mugabe Remains in Power

Africa's longest ruling dictator, Robert Mugabe, will remain in power after the opposition leader dropped out of the election, due to fears of violence directed at him and his followers.

Zimbabwe is a complete cluster fuck these days, with inflation in the hundreds of thousands of percents: a meal there costs billions in local currency.  

Mugabe rose to power during the end of British colonialism in what was then Rhodesia.  After taking power he slowly turned his country into a complete cesspool, blaming white people for his problems.  The white Africans owned most of the farms, so he took their land, gave it to black Africans and killed most of the whites who resisted.  The new owners of the farms did not know how to run them, so there are now widespread food shortages.

This asshole will probably be in power until he's dead.