MuggsyMugabe
Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...and his family are "safe and sound," according to Zim-bob-we's military ‐ but his decades in power are seemingly at an end, after Mugabe, 93, was forcefully pushed aside. Both the ruling party and the military insist there was no coup.
"We are only targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice," the Zim-bob-we Defense Forces said on Wednesday, adding, "As soon as we have accomplished our mission we expect that the situation will return to normality."
But it will be a new normal for Zim-bob-we, which has been led by Mugabe since the 1980s.
The dramatic shift comes a week after Mugabe fired longtime Vice President (and military veteran) Emmerson Mnangagwa, accusing him of disloyalty. That seemed to be the last straw for the military, which sent armored vehicles and soldiers on street patrols in the capital. As we reported, "Soldiers reportedly took control of the headquarters of the national broadcaster, ZBC, with an army front man saying on air, 'this is not a military takeover.' "