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.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @04:32AM (1 child)
Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe but he didn't destroy as many OTHER countries as the USA did.
Even when you divide by 20 the USA's wrongful kills count is higher:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change#Cold_War_era [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States#Covert_actions [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday November 20 2017, @03:08PM
We'll need to include Zimbabwe's interference [wikipedia.org] in the Second Congo War, particularly in providing the dominant air force in the war to the eventual victor, Joseph Kabila [wikipedia.org]. That war is thought to have killed 3 to almost 6 million people through mostly disease and starvation. With that multiplier of 20, things don't look so good for Zimbabwe anymore.
I await your next round of whataboutism.