Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Fires Mugabe, Names Mnangagwa Leader
- Mugabe may be impeached if he doesn’t agree to step down
- Zanu-PF also resolves to expel wife Grace from its ranks
Robert Mugabe
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Zimbabwe’s ruling party fired Robert Mugabe as its leader and ordered him to resign as president by midday Monday or face impeachment. It named Emmerson Mnangagwa as the new party leader and presidential nominee for elections due to be held next year.
The decisions were taken at a meeting of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s central committee in the capital, Harare, on Sunday. They follow Mugabe’s dismissal of his vice president Mnangagwa earlier this month, which prompted the military to intervene and place him under house arrest.