Zimbabwe: Commonwealth’s once suspended nation seeks to rejoin as leaders mark death of Queen
The i says Students in light blue dresses and navy blue blazers walk briskly through the gate at Queen Elizabeth Girls High School in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital to attend lessons that start at 8am. In the city’s central business district, however, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel is up for sale, the owners have recently announced.
The local landmarks named for the monarch, who died aged 96 at Balmoral last Thursday, are concrete representations of the ties linking Zimbabwe, a former British colony, to the United Kingdom.
The country occupies a unique place in Commonwealth history as the only nation to be suspended and then to have withdrawn from the 54-nation bloc it is now seeking to rejoin.