People celebrate in Harare after President Robert Mugabe resigned. Robert Mugabe addresses the inaugural session of the World Summit in Geneva in December 2003. Some held posters of army chief General Constantino Chiwenga and former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose sacking this month triggered the military takeover that forced Mugabe out. Mugabe is the only leader Zimbabwe has known since a guerrilla struggle ended white-minority rule in the former Rhodesia. Reuters reported in September that Mnangagwa was plotting to succeed Mugabe, with army backing, at the helm of a broad coalition.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 21, 2017 16:52 UTC