Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, stunned his people in his speech on Sunday, maintaining that he would preside over his party-ZANU-PF-congress in December. Many political observers and fellow Zimbabweans had been waiting for 93-year-old Mugabe to step aside as President after nearly 40 years in power, Reuters reports. But observers questioned how he could oversee the conference if he was no longer the leader of the party. It also appointed Emmerson Mnangagwa, the vice-president previously fired by the President, as Mugabe’s successor to lead the party. The stunning rebuke by the central committee of Mugabe’s party came after emergency talks to address the political crisis.

Source: Punch November 19, 2017 23:15 UTC