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Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe confined to home as army takes control
The Guardian ^ | Wed 11/15/2017 | Claire Phipps and Kevin Rawlinson

Posted on 11/15/2017 1:25:05 PM PST by Lazamataz

The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, is being confined to his house by soldiers who surrounded his official and private residences, as well as other government buildings.

Sources suggest Grace Mugabe, who was being positioned to eventually take over from her husband, has left Zimbabwe for Namibia.

The sacked vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was reported to have returned to Zimbabwe on Wednesday morning from South Africa, where he fled after being stripped of his office.

The president of neighbouring South Africa, Jacob Zuma, said he had spoken to Mugabe, who was “fine” and that he was sending special envoys to meet both Zimbabwe’s president and its senior army officers.

The UK government warned British nationals to stay indoors until the situation becomes clearer. The foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, called for restraint.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: mugabe; zimbabwe; zimbabwecoup
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About damned time they got this ghoul.

Pity the next one is likely as ghoulish.

1 posted on 11/15/2017 1:25:05 PM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

He’s 93! Not entitled to the dignity of natural death.


2 posted on 11/15/2017 1:27:21 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Lazamataz

This is all well and good, but I still want Trump to lock the bitch up.


3 posted on 11/15/2017 1:29:24 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Lazamataz

“About damned time they got this ghoul.
Pity the next one is likely as ghoulish.”

40 years too late, and yeah, FTFO on the region getting back to being the breadbasket of Africa.

Sad.

Didn’t the Capsticks have a station in Rhodesia?

KYPD


4 posted on 11/15/2017 1:29:43 PM PST by petro45acp (" It IS About Islam: exposing the truth about ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the caliphate" by Glenn Beck)
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To: Lazamataz

One party dictatorial rule. Typical for Africa sadly.


5 posted on 11/15/2017 1:29:54 PM PST by rstrahan
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To: Lazamataz

Needs to be confined in his oven at 325 for 5hrs.


6 posted on 11/15/2017 1:31:41 PM PST by rawcatslyentist
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To: Lazamataz

Let’s hope and pray that the new boss ain’t the same as the old boss......................


7 posted on 11/15/2017 1:34:58 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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450°.........................


8 posted on 11/15/2017 1:35:29 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Lazamataz

Zimbabwe has officially become 100% re-Africanized.


9 posted on 11/15/2017 1:35:30 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Lazamataz

Unfortunately, Mnangagwa is one of the worst. He was Mugabe’s chief hatchet man until their falling out. So there won’t be any positive change, merely one ruthless dictator replacing another.


10 posted on 11/15/2017 1:36:59 PM PST by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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Hang them by the neck until dead.

It's a pity what this scum did to Rhodesia.

11 posted on 11/15/2017 1:45:04 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of MAGA. Likely have a civil war before we get more.)
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To: PGR88

South Africa is about 80% back to savagery!


12 posted on 11/15/2017 1:46:03 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Lazamataz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXEjzApCXo


13 posted on 11/15/2017 1:48:37 PM PST by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: backwoods-engineer

It’s a pity what this scum did to Rhodesia.

worth repeating


14 posted on 11/15/2017 1:49:12 PM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: Lazamataz

Oh no, where can liberals go now?


15 posted on 11/15/2017 1:50:47 PM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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They must have decided to stage a coup based on that American female journalist’s tweet. No wonder Mugabe locked her up!


16 posted on 11/15/2017 1:52:22 PM PST by shotgun
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They need to hang him from a lamp pole before his backers get him back in charge.


17 posted on 11/15/2017 1:52:35 PM PST by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Lazamataz

Mugabe - corralled by one of his minions. Poetic justice.


18 posted on 11/15/2017 1:55:27 PM PST by Wuli
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Just wait for the media to complain that they should have elected a woman. :-)


19 posted on 11/15/2017 2:12:44 PM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Red Badger

Exactly. It sounds as though they’re better than the old boss, at this moment at least.

However, I think they may end up having to take him out and put him against a wall. Every time a dictator has been allowed to live, he’s always gotten back into power.


20 posted on 11/15/2017 2:14:38 PM PST by livius
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