Calls for President Robert Mugabe to step down as Zimbabwe’s president were met with defiance from the 93-year-old statesman on Sunday. Mugabe said that he was going to preside over a ZANU-PF party meeting in December, a move that could lead to impeachment proceedings being initiated this week.
In a televised broadcast, he spoke of “a whole range of concerns” of the Zimbabwean people, but did not announce what many had hoped he would – that he would resign from office.
The president has been given a deadline of Monday noon to resign; if not, impeachment proceedings would begin. He was seen shaking hands with the commanders of security forces just before his speech to the nation.
Once a powerful man, Mugabe is now left with no support on which to rest his claim to continue the presidency.
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