Zimbabwe's Mugabe Ousted By Own Party, Refuses To Step Down
The near-four decade rule of Robert Mugabe appeared to be coming to an end after the ruling ZANU-PF party voted to remove him, but Mugabe appeared defiant in a Sunday evening televised address.
by Amy Held
Nov 19, 2017
2 minutes
Updated at 3:15 p.m. ET
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.
But in an address broadcast on state television Sunday night, which some observers had predicted Mugabe would use to
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