ZIMBABWE’S longtime president Robert Mugabe has ignored a Monday noon deadline to either step-down or face impeachment. Mugabe made clear in a televised speech Sunday that he did not intend to resign. They were bitterly disappointed – some to the point of tears – to hear Mugabe say he will preside over his ZANU-PF party congress next month. Party whip Lovemore Matuke tells the Associated Press impeachment proceedings are a certainty and called Mugabe’s speech “surprising.”“It is not in line with what we expected. “That speech has nothing to do with realities,” Chris Mutsvangwa, head of the influential war veterans’ association, told AFP news agency.

Source: Nigerian Tribune November 20, 2017 14:32 UTC