Mnangagwa to be sworn in today after besieged Mugabe quits
'Wild celebrations broke out at a joint sitting of parliament when Speaker Jacob Mudenda read out Mugabe’s brief resignation letter and suspended the impeachment procedure'
Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe’s president on Tuesday a week after the army and his former political allies moved to end four decades of rule by a man once feted as an independence hero who became feared as a despot. His former vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, will be sworn in as president on Wednesday or Thursday, Patrick Chinamasa, legal secretary of the ruling ZANU-PF told Reuters. The 93-year-old Mugabe had clung on for a week after an army takeover. He finally resigned shortly after parliament began an impeachment process seen as the only legal way to force him out. Wild celebrations broke out at a joint sitting of parliament when Speaker Jacob Mudenda read out Mugabe’s brief resignation letter and suspended the impeachment procedure. Mugabe, who has been confined to his Harare residence, did not appear in person. People danced and car horns blared at news that the era of Mugabe -- who has led Zimbabwe since independence in 1980 -- was finally over.
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