Zimbabwe: After Military Intervention, Army Poses New Election Headache

23 February 2018
opinion

When the army stepped in to put pressure on former president Robert Mugabe to leave office last November-which he did as we all know-thousands united in celebrating the exit of a much-loathed statesman who had ruled for an unbroken 37 years and ploughed the country down with all his efforts.

The army preemptively denied it was a coup, but many think that was a predictable bluff. They insist that the fact that Mugabe penned his own resignation is not the issue. Military tanks were, after all, snorting at him and they had been deployed without his consent as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.

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