Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has paid tribute to Tanzania and its founding President Julius Nyerere for the critical role in training and accommodating Zimbabwean freedom fighters during the southern African nation’s struggle for the country’s independence in the 1960s and 1970s. Mugabe eulogized Nyerere at a book launch in Harare to commemorate the late President who ruled Tanzania from independence and voluntarily gave up power to Ali Hassan Mwinyi in 1985. Mugabe said that in addition to accommodating Zimbabwean freedom fighters who stayed in various bases in their country, Tanzania also carried the burdens of liberation fighters from Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau. The Zimbabwean president who is the out-going chair of the African Union (AU) expressed his joy that the continental body will be honouring Nyerere by naming one of its buildings after him. “I was overjoyed that the building under construction t...