Conventional Long Form Name of Country:
- Republic of Zimbabwe
- Harare
- Semi-Presidential Republic
- 18 April 1980
- Independence Day: April 18
- Executive President Robert Gabriel MUGABE
- Executive President Robert Gabriel MUGABE
- Each presidential candidate nominated with a nomination paper signed by at least 10 registered voters (at least 1 candidate from each province) and directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 5-year term (no term limits); election last held on 31 July 2013 (next to be held in 2018); co-vice presidents drawn from party leadership
- bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (80 seats; 60 members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies - 6 seats in each of the 10 provinces - by proportional representation vote, 16 indirectly elected by the regional governing councils, 2 reserved for the National Council Chiefs, and 2 reserved for members with disabilities; members serve 5-year terms) and the House of Assembly (270 seats; 210 members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by simple majority vote and 60 seats reserved for women directly elected by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)
- Supreme Court (consists of the chief justice and 4 judges); Constitutional Court (consists of the chief and deputy chief justices and 9 judges). Supreme Court judges appointed by the president upon recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission, an independent body consisting of the chief justice, Public Service Commission chairman, attorney general, and 2-3 members appointed by the president; judges normally serve until age 65 but can elect to serve until age 70; Constitutional Court judge appointment NA; judges serve non-renewable 15-year terms
Suffrage:
- 18 Year Old - Universal
- Ammon Machingambi Mutembwa
- 1608 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20009
- N/A
- Harry K. Thomas, Jr.
- 172 Herbert Chitepo Ave. Harare, Zimbabwe
- N/A
- Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava
- Seven equal horizontal bands of green, yellow, red, black, red, yellow, and green with a white isosceles triangle edged in black with its base on the hoist side; a yellow Zimbabwe bird representing the long history of the country is superimposed on a red five-pointed star in the center of the triangle, which symbolizes peace; green represents agriculture, yellow mineral wealth, red the blood shed to achieve independence, and black stands for the native people
- Zimbabwe Bird Symbol
- African Fish Eagle
- Flame Lily
- "Kalibusiswe Ilizwe leZimbabwe" [Northern Ndebele language] "Simudzai Mureza WeZimbabwe" [Shona] (Blessed Be the Land of Zimbabwe)
- Namibia has supported, and in 2004 Zimbabwe dropped objections to, plans between Botswana and Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de facto recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia boundary in the river; South Africa has placed military units to assist police operations along the border of Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique to control smuggling, poaching, and illegal migration
- 5,414 (Democratic Republic of Congo) (2015)
- undetermined (political violence, violence in association with the 2008 election, human rights violations, land reform, and economic collapse) (2015)
- 300,000 (2015)
- Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking
- Transit point for cannabis and South Asian heroin, mandrax, and methamphetamines en route to South Africa