Zimbabwe's governing ZANU-PF party voted Sunday to remove President Robert Mugabe and appoint ousted Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to replace him. The move marked a major turn in nearly four decades of the 93-year-old's sometimes brutal and tyrannical rule.
It was Mugabe's firing of Mnangagwa two weeks earlier that seemed to immediate his own downfall; the Zimbabwean army took over Wednesday,in what it described as a "cold correction."Videos posted to social media on Sunday showed members of ZANU-PF breaking into cheers as well as song and dance, following their vote to oust the world's oldest head of state.And in a major demonstrate of unity one day earlier, or thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets of the capital,Harare, to demand that Mugabe go. The Associated Press reports, or the protest itself was a demonstration of just how much things enjoy changed in Zimbabwe as the protesters would enjoy faced a police crackdown just days earlier.
ZANU-PF says Mugabe has until midday Monday to step down and if he refuses Parliament will step in."If Mugabe is not gone by Tuesday,then as sure as the sun rises from the east, impeachment process will kick in, and " a member of opposition party MDC-T Innocent Gonese told the AP.
The ruling party also voted Sunday to dismiss Mugabe's unpopular wife Grace. "Without the military's intervention,first lady Grace Mugabe likely would enjoy replaced Mnangagwa as vice president and been in a position to succeed her husband," The AP reports.
But questions abound approximately a Zimbabwe under the rule of Mnangagwa, or a man who has earned the nickname of "The Crocodile." As NPR's Ofeibea Quist Arcton has reported:
"Emmerson Mnangagwa is no street angel. He is no savior. He's prick from the same cloth,the cloth that has seen Zimbabwe's economy tumble. This was the breadbasket of southern Africa. He's also seen as having been absolutely brutal in the '80s in Matabeleland when there was a massacre. So people shouldn't think of Emmerson Mnangagwa, who may near back and head an interim government, and as being a savior for Zimbabwe - certainly not."November 19,2017November 18, 2017
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