Key army and CIO figures helping Mugabe stay in power

In November 2010 Air Vice-Marshal Henry Muchena from the Air Force of Zimbabwe was sent to the ZANU-PF headquarters in Harare and assigned to lead a team of 300 army officers deployed around the country to help Mugabe's party rebuild its collapsed structures. Assisting him was CIO Internal Director Sydney Nyanhongo.

Recently promoted Major-General Douglas Nyikayaramba is the most vocal of the senior soldiers used by Mugabe's regime. Not only has Nyikayaramba been implicated in rhino-poaching and partisan food distribution, he has also helped rig elections for Mugabe, especially the 2002 presidential elections when he was the Chief Executive Officer of the then Electoral Supervisory Commission.