The partnership was shaky and often acrimonious, but the coalition succeeded in agreeing a new constitution, which was approved by referendum ahead of fresh elections in July 2013.
However, following Mr Mugabe's re-election as president in 2013 and Zanu-PF's gaining of a two-thirds majority in the parliamentary poll, the power-sharing coalition was ditched.
Mr Mugabe continues to preside over a nation whose economy is in deep crisis, where poverty and unemployment are endemic and political strife and repression commonplace.
Control over the land has been a major issue in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is home to the Victoria Falls, one of the natural
wonders of the world, the stone enclosures of Great Zimbabwe - remnants
of a past empire - and to herds of elephant and other game roaming vast
stretches of wilderness.
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