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Zimbabwe awaits news on Mugabe's future
Zimbabweans are waiting to see what steps the military will take next after seizing control of the country. President Robert Mugabe is said to be under house arrest but the whereabouts of his wife Grace, who was bidding to succeed him as president, are unknown.
South African ministers have been in the capital Harare meeting the army and political parties. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional bloc will hold emergency talks on Thursday.
President Mugabe, 93, has been in control of Zimbabwe since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. But the power struggle over who might succeed him, between Mrs Mugabe and her rival former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa, has split the ruling Zanu-PF party in recent months.
More about Zimbabwe and former President Robert Mugabe.
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CNN: Zimbabwe: Talks underway to form transitional government, source says
NYT editorial: For Zimbabwe, a Coup Isn't the Answer
Extras from BBC: Zimbabwe: Did Robert Mugabe finally go too far? - BBC News
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Update: 'Mugabe Must Go': Thousands in Zimbabwe Rally Against Leader
Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF leaders meeting to decide Mugabe future
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Update 2: Zanu-PF has removed Mugabe as party leader, and he may be impeached if he does not resign the Presidency by Monday.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by SanityCheck on Sunday November 19 2017, @03:03PM (6 children)
Couldn't have happened to a nicer Communist. Fuck that guy, fuck Africa.
(Score: 2, Informative) by takyon on Sunday November 19 2017, @03:16PM (4 children)
Huh? Do you need your namesake? You're going to have to learn to live with your soon-to-be 4 billion neighbors [npr.org].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @05:36PM (1 child)
Africa will never reach 4 billion. There's no food for them.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @08:43PM
Actually, in Eritrea, they turn saltwater and desert into food.
Turning Saltwater and Desert into a Sustainable Ecosystem [dankalia.com]
The Manzanar Project in Eritrea, Sudan, China, and Chile [wikipedia.org]
Kenya Produces Lots of Food Without USA's Agrobusiness "Experts" [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [truth-out.org]
You need better sources of "information".
I suggest switching off Lamestream Media for starters.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @07:10PM
Africa has people who damage the environment. They are actually quite awful, despite lower resource use, because they do stuff like cut into oil pipelines in the Nigerian delta to steal oil and because they aren't too careful about disposal of things. Look up the "flying toilet" popular in Kenya and be horrified; wikipedia has pictures.
It gets worse if Africa gets more people. It gets worse if those people gain wealth (higher resource usage) or, much worse, move to a place like Europe where they can easily use lots of resources. Africans driving in Sweden use more resources than Africans walking in Ghana.
So, if we are serious about the environment, we need to keep Africans down. We need them dying of preventable disease, collapsing in the wilderness and being eaten by jackals. We need them choosing birth control, abortion, civil war, regular war, genocide, suicide, and euthanasia. We need to encourage this, one way or another. It's the only way to save the planet.
(Score: 2) by crafoo on Sunday November 19 2017, @08:09PM
>learn to live with
No. No we will not have to do this.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday November 19 2017, @09:41PM
Indeed. Perhaps one should note that he is, or was, of the "Chinese communist" persuasion, as in they are the once that supported him during the long insurgency in Rhodesia (that eventually turned into Zimbabwe, and Zambia ) while the other rebels was supported by the Russian communists, if such things matter and they probably do. So one would assume his will be sent into exile in China or probably stored away in some other hole where, super rich, former dictators go once they are overthrown and doesn't get a bullet in the back of the head.