Picture of the Week: Mugabe escort biker blaze

President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade — believed to be the longest in Africa — has in the past been involved in serious accidents and, in all cases, the 93-year-old veteran nationalist escaped unhurt.

A Zimbabwean man has been sentenced to two years in jail for intercepting President Robert Mugabe's motorcade in Harare, reports said on Friday.

One of President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade outriders was badly injured Wednesday afternoon after he was involved in an accident near Sam Levy Village in Borrowdale, Harare.

Two Bulawayo men were on Friday arrested for allegedly blocking President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade in the city. Mugabe was in Bulawayo for the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) graduation ceremony.

Secret video footage showing the moment a police officer in President Robert Mugabe's escort died in a blazing inferno after his motorbike rammed into a lorry in Harare on Wednesday, October 3, 2012. It was the fourth accident in 2012 involving the veteran leader's motorcade