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Mnangagwa: Zimbabwe's 'Crocodile' to snap up the top job

Harare - Emirates Voice

Nicknamed "the Crocodile" for his ruthlessness, Emmerson Mnangagwa who will take over as Zimbabwe's next president, is a hardliner with ties to the military who could prove as authoritarian as his mentor Robert Mugabe. It was his political ambition to take over which set off a bitter succession battle between him and Grace, the president's 52-year-old wife, triggering the crisis that toppled theRead more

Mugabe starts TV address amid resignation reports

Harare - Emirates Voice

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday began a TV address amid reports that he would resign. Mugabe's grip on power was broken last week when the military took over, angered at his wife Grace's emergence as the leading candidate to succeed the 93-year-old president.Read more

Mugabe must resign or be impeached: Zim

Harare - Emirates Voice

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" by midday Monday or face impeachment proceedings. Party spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo added that "GraceRead more

ZANU-PF youth league call for Mugabe, Grace to go

Harare - AFP

The influential youth league of Zimbabwe's ruling party called Sunday for President Robert Mugabe to leave office and his wife Grace to be thrown out of the party, piling further pressure on the veteran leader. The ZANU-PF Youth League has been fiercely loyal to Mugabe, 93, but following the military takeover last week, it said he should step down "soRead more

In Zimbabwe, a first lady exerts her power

Masvingo - Arab Today

The first lady of Zimbabwe’s display of power was unspoken, though clear, during the governing party’s annual congress, as she focused her speech on new party regalia featuring a teacup-shaped image of her country. “We all drink from the teacup,” Grace Mugabe, the first lady, said, explaining she had designed the regalia herself. Not surprisingly, the next morning in Masvingo,Read more