Mugabe 'must explain $15bn diamond looting' - report

Ex-president Robert Mugabe will be asked to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain how diamonds worth $15 billion were looted from diamond fields in the east of Zimbabwe, a report says. 

In a claim that's coming back to haunt him, the former Zimbabwe strongman announced in 2015 that $15 billion of diamonds was spirited out of Marange, the dusty fields more than four hours drive from Harare which were the site of a bloody military clampdown in 2008.

After 37 years in power Mugabe, 94, was pushed out of office in November 2017 - but anger against him, his wife and those closest to him remains deep and polarising.