{"id":33989,"date":"2018-10-30T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33989"},"modified":"2018-10-30T15:20:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:50:54","slug":"zimbabwe-army-seizes-power-president-robert-mugabe-confined-to-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zimbabwe-army-seizes-power-president-robert-mugabe-confined-to-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Army seizes power, President Robert Mugabe \u2018confined to his home\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/army-seizes-control-in-zimbabwe-says-mugabe-safe\/article20448577.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zimbabwe Army seizes power, President Robert Mugabe \u2018confined to his home\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zimbabwe is under the control of the military after its army chief warned President Robert Mugabe against purging the ruling party&#8217;s senior ranks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Armoured personnel carriers and troops were deployed onto roads leading towards Harare on Tuesday, a day after army chief General Constantino Chiwenga warned the military may intervene after Mugabe fired Mnangagwa last week.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a climax of a power struggle between liberation-era figures loyal to ousted vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa and forces faithful to First Lady Grace Mugabe, who is seen as vying to succeed her 93-year-old husband.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zimbabwean soldiers and armoured vehicles blocked roads to the main government offices, Parliament and the courts in central Harare<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Mugabe\u2019s wife Grace had supposedly been vying to succeed Mr. Mugabe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soldiers were deployed across Harare on November 14 and they seized the state broadcaster after the ZANU-PF party accused the head of the military of treason, prompting frenzied speculation of a coup.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Mugabe has led Zimbabwe for the last 37 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe Army seizes power, President Robert Mugabe \u2018confined to his home\u2019\u00a0 Context Zimbabwe is under the control of the military after its army chief warned President Robert Mugabe against purging the ruling party&#8217;s senior ranks. What happened? Armoured personnel carriers and troops were deployed onto roads leading towards Harare on Tuesday, a day after army&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zimbabwe-army-seizes-power-president-robert-mugabe-confined-to-his-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zimbabwe Army seizes power, President Robert Mugabe \u2018confined to his home\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704920728},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}