HARARE: President Robert Mugabe’s own ruling ZANU-PF party wants him to step down and plans to hold a rally in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Saturday to make the point. Mugabe, at Zimbabwe’s helm since independence from Britain in 1980, faces the starkest challenge ever to his rule after the army seized power on Wednesday, saying it was targeting “criminals” around the nonagenarian leader. A senior member of ZANU-PF earlier told Reuters the party wanted their long-time president gone. Mugabe, 93, who calls himself the grand old man of African politics, looks to be running out of options. Grace Mugabe is under house arrest and her key political allies are in military custody.

Source: New Strait Times November 18, 2017 00:56 UTC