"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
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"The President Is Gone" - Zimbabwe Ruling Party Officially Ousts Mugabe
A day after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Harare to celebrate the imminent removal of Robert Mugabe, the country’s 93-year-old dictator who’d been effectively deposed during a surprise coup earlier this week, the country’s ruling party has officially voted to remove him from office and install his former deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as interim leader. As we’ve pointed out, Mugabe triggered his own downfall when he fired Mnangagwa last week to try and clear a path for his much-younger wife, Grace, to succeed him as leader of Zimbabwe. However, Mnangagwa’s sudden ouster outraged the leaders ... (full story)