Zimbabwe's Ousted Vice President Flees After Death Threats
- Mnangagwa pledges to work to build ‘progressive’ leadership
- Position of the military in power struggle could be decisive
Photographer: Alexander Joe/AFP via Getty Images
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Former Zimbabwean Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa fled the southern African nation because of “incessant threats” against him and his family two days after he was fired by President Robert Mugabe.
Mnangagwa, 75, said Wednesday in a statement that he never planned to harm Mugabe, who he’s been supporting for more than four decades, and pledged to work to establish a “new and progressive leadership” in the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front. “You and your cohorts will instead leave Zanu-PF by the will of the people and this we will do in the coming few weeks,” he told Mugabe.