Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe clung to the vestiges of office on Sunday, using a TV address to maintain he was still in power despite a military takeover and a mounting clamour for his autocratic 37-year rule to end. “The (ruling ZANU-PF) party congress is due …
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Mugabe: Liberation hero turned despot Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s veteran leader Robert Mugabe once quipped that he’d rule his country until he turned 100. But the 93-year-old’s decades-long grip on power was slipped on Sunday after his own party told him to resign or face impeachment. Sources close to …
Read More »Mugabe to make statement tonight on State TV
BREAKING: Mugabe to make live TV address tonight: Zimbabwe state TV Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is to make a live television address on Sunday evening, state television announced, as the veteran leader faced the apparent end of his 37-year rule. “President RG Mugabe to address …
Read More »Mugabe must resign or be impeached
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party said on Sunday that Robert Mugabe must resign as the country’s president or face impeachment, as it also resolved to expel his wife Grace. A party meeting in Harare agreed that “Mugabe resign forthwith from his position as president of Zimbabwe” …
Read More »ZANU-PF picks ousted VP Mnangagwa for 2018 polls
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party said on Sunday that former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose sacking sparked a military takeover earlier this week, would be its candidate for president in elections scheduled for 2018. “Mnangagwa was elected as president and first secretary of ZANU-PF… and was nominated …
Read More »Elated Zimbabweans celebrate as Mugabe era fades
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Tens of thousands of overjoyed protesters flooded Zimbabwe’s streets Saturday celebrating President Robert Mugabe’s slipping power on the eve of crunch talks with the military to determine the veteran leader’s fate. In scenes of public euphoria not seen since independence in 1980, huge crowds marched, danced …
Read More »Crunch talks as Mugabe and generals thrash out his exit
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwean army generals will pile further pressure on President Robert Mugabe to resign Sunday after tens of thousands of overjoyed protesters celebrated the apparent end of his 37-year regime. Mugabe’s hold on power was broken this week when the military took over in a dispute …
Read More »Mugabe to meet army chiefs Sunday: state TV
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Embattled President Robert Mugabe will meet on Sunday with the army chiefs who took over Zimbabwe in a bid to end the crisis that has gripped the nation, state TV said. “President Robert Mugabe will meet the commander-elect of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (on Sunday),” said …
Read More »This is a great day’: Zimbabweans revel in Mugabe’s ruin
Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | President Robert Mugabe clings to office, the military is in power and the much-feared ZANU-PF party still rules — but Zimbabweans put such issues aside Saturday to happily embrace what they hope is a new era for the country. Many protesters welcomed the army’s takeover …
Read More »Lessons for Museveni from Mugabe, and for Uganda, from Zimbabwe
COMMENT: Lessons for Museveni from Mugabe, and for Uganda, from Zimbabwe COMMENT | Andrew Mwenda | The fall of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has been welcomed by many Ugandans with excitement. For many people tired of President Yoweri Museveni’s long rule, Mugabe’s fall gives hope that their nightmare is …
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