You Might Like
Zimbabweans Celebrate In The Streets While Anticipating Fall Of Robert Mugabe
Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of Zimbabwe’s capital on Saturday to celebrate the anticipated fall of Robert Mugabe.
There was singing, dancing and even hugging of soldiers in an extraordinary outpouring of elation as pressure mounted on the country’s 93-year-old president to resign.
Mugabe, the only ruler Zimbabwe has known since independence from Britain in 1980, has been holed up in his lavish ‘Blue Roof’ compound, from where he has watched support from his Zanu-PF party, the security services and the people evaporate in the wake of a military seizure of power on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
picture of army commander Constantino Chiwenga and Emmerson Mnangagwa, the former vice president whose sacking this month precipitated the military intervention.
“My dream is to see a new Zimbabwe. I’ve only known this tyrant called Mugabe my whole life.”
