Mugabe fired as ruling party leader - ZANU-PF sources

Reuters

19 November 2017 at 6:49 am

Zimbabwean War Veterans leader Chris Mutsvangwa (C) greets other delegates attending an extraordinary meeting of the ruling ZANU-PF party's central committee in Harare, Zimbabwe November 19, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was fired as leader of the ruling ZANU-PF party on Sunday and replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa, the deputy he sacked this month, sources at a special ZANU-PF meeting to decide Mugabe's fate told Reuters.

"He has been expelled," one of delegates told Reuters. "Mnangagwa is our new leader." Three other delegates confirmed Mugabe's dismissal.

(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Ed Stoddard)

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