HARARE (AFP) -- Robert Mugabe has been removed as president of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party and replaced by his former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, a party delegate told AFP on Sunday outside a meeting in Harare.
"A resolution has been adopted to recall the president and elevate Mnangagwa as the party president," said the delegate, who declined to be named.
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This file photo taken on January 7, 2017 shows Zimbabwe's then acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaking during a funeral ceremony in Harare. Mnangagwa has replaced Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as the ZANU-PF party chief, according to a party delegate on Nov. 19, 2017. (AFP-Yonhap) |