Zimbabwe's Mugabe Planning to Step Down

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President Robert Mugabe is preparing to step down, a few hours after the Zimbabwean military took over power, a leading South African news website has reported.
"Mugabe 'preparing to step down' - senior source," News24 website posted, without giving any further details.

Political tensions have been rising since President Mugabe recently sacked Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-time ally, as vice-president.

The Zanu PF Twitter account claims that Emmerson Mnangagwa has been made interim president.

The 75-year-old was sacked from his post as vice-president for what the government called "traits of disloyalty".

At the time, his removal was seen as making it more likely that President Mugabe's wife, Grace, would follow in her husband's footsteps as leader of Zimbabwe.

She had earlier called on her husband to remove his vice-president.
Soldiers have seized the headquarters of Zimbabwe's national broadcaster and loud explosions and gunfire have been heard during a night of mounting tension in the capital, Harare.

An army general appeared on television to insist that there had not been a military coup and that the president and his family were "safe and sound".
But a recent post from the ruling party's own Twitter account suggests the first family has been detained.

’’Zimbabwe has not had a coup. There has been a decision to intervene because our constitution had been undermined, in the interim Comrade E Mnagngawa will be president of ZANU PF as per the constitution of our revolutionary organisation.

There was no coup, only a bloodless transition which saw corrupt and crooked persons being arrested and an elderly man who had been taken advantage of by his wife being detained. The few bangs that were heard were from crooks who were resisting arrest, but they are now detained’’.

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