Zimbabwe - live updates: Has Robert Mugabe resigned?
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Your support makes all the difference.Robert Mugabe may be about to be forced from power by his own comrades, as the Zimbabwe crisis drags into its second week.
The 93-year-old veteran leader was expected to announce his resignation over the weekend, following pressure from the army and his own party. But he shocked both the country and the world by apparently refusing to do so, and clinging on to power.
That refusal came amid a long and rambling TV address to the country, during which he was expected to hand over the reins.
Now his party, Zanu-PF is expected to opt instead to force him out. It is thought to be pursuing legal routes of doing so, meaning that the president could very soon be impeached.
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Mugabe's party intends to start the process of kicking him out by impeaching him from tomorrow, according to a Zanu PF MP.
Robert Mugabe has given yet another TV address – and failed to resign. He said people should not be divided and then ended without resigning, amid continuing speculation.
Officials say that the impeachment process should take two days, and will start tomorrow.
A Zimbabwean Cabinet minister close to first lady Grace Mugabe who went silent after the military moved in last week has reappeared on Twitter, saying he is "relatively fine outside the country." Minister of higher education Jonathan Moyo had been said to be detained along with a number of other ministers as the military pursued people it called "criminals" accused of hurting the country's economy. Moyo, the most outspoken of the unpopular first lady's allies, says he is outside Zimbabwe with "at least 50 others" who include lawmakers and ruling party officials. Opposition to Grace Mugabe's positioning to succeed her husband led the military to move in last week and put the president under house arrest.
A Zimbabwe ruling party official says it should take Parliament two days to impeach longtime President Robert Mugabe, who is resisting calls to step down. The party's deputy secretary for legal affairs Paul Mangwana is speaking to reporters as ruling party lawmakers gather. He says they will move a motion for impeachment on Tuesday and set up a committee and on Wednesday it will report back and "we vote him out." Mangwana says the main charge against the 93-year-old Mugabe is "allowing his wife to usurp government powers" and that "he is too old and cannot even walk without help." He says the ruling party needs the backing of the MDC opposition group to have enough votes in Parliament but "they are supporting us."
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