Zimbabwe latest: Mugabe 'resisting calls to resign'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Zimbabwe's long-time President Robert Mugabe is reportedly refusing to step down immediately, despite growing calls for his resignation.
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There has been no official word on the outcome of talks he had with regional envoys and the army chief earlier.

But sources say he has so far refused to agree to move aside.

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said earlier it was "in the interests of the people" that Mr Mugabe "resign... immediately".


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-42020416

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. Has he been offered safe passage?

Is there a country that would offer him refuge?

I'm sure he's got plenty stashed in various banks around the world.

[Codeine]

2. Bullet to the dome

and passage across the Styx is guaranteed.

[Igel]

4. He might be remembering about a lot of other examples.

Immunity, safe passage, host country.

Then a world-wide campaign to indict him at the Hague or to extradite him back to stand for crimes against humanity or whatever.

Each time, the agreement that was instrumental in getting the bad guy to step aside was violated made it that much harder for despots that had a chance of hanging on to be pressured out gracefully.

Then again, it's Mugabe. He didn't participate in an election and threatened a continued insurgency, thus gaining power. "Vote for me or the terror will continue." Winning strategy in some parts of the world. But there's hope--even some media sources for whom Mugabe was a kind of secular messiah because he was a kind of trifecta--indigenous/of color, leftist, and resisting colonialism--allow that maybe people around him managed to corrupt him and, well, he wasn't actually perfect.

[Matthew28]

3. Hopefully this evil man

is removed soon!

[Boilingpots]

7. Who has done more

to smash White Capitalism?

Mugabe is an African Hero.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Mugabe makes first public appearance since military takeover

Robert Mugabe has attended a university graduation ceremony on the outskirts of Harare in his first public appearance since a takeover by the Zimbabwean military on Wednesday.

Clad in academic gown and hat, the 93-year-old walked slowly in a procession on a red carpet to a podium as a marching band played. He was applauded as he announced the opening of the ceremony.

His appearance followed an army statement describing “significant progress” that was broadcast on national television and published by state-run media on Friday morning. The statement appears to have been aimed at quelling growing concerns that the military takeover could descend swiftly into chaos.

The appearance of the president in public is likely to fuel such worries, and reinforce growing pressure on the military to rapidly resolve the ongoing crisis. Adding to the sense of the bizarre, the wife of the general who detained him on Wednesday was among those upon whom Mugabe conferred a degree.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/zimbabwe-military-claims-progress-in-takeover-talks

So the 'house arrest' is still letting him do ceremonial stuff.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. 'Leave Zimbabwe now': thousands of protesters call for Robert Mugabe to go

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the centre of Harare to call for the resignation of Robert Mugabe, as moves to force the Zimbabwean president to stand down gather pace.
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The march – which has been sanctioned by the military – will demonstrate popular support for the takeover and a return to democracy. However, moves within Zanu-PF may prove the decisive factor in forcing Mugabe to step down.

By late Friday afternoon, all 10 of the country’s provincial Zanu-PF branches had passed motions of no confidence in the president. These could lead to Mugabe being stripped of office by Sunday, one official told the Guardian.

The state broadcaster ran a headline, “Zabnu-PF call for Mugabe to step down”, which would have been unthinkable a week ago, underlining the pace of change in the small southern African state.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/anti-mugabe-protest-planned-in-harare-as-president-clings-on

[mpcamb]

8. Get the money back first. No discussion of "immunity, safe passage, host country" till then.

Hideous dictators like Idi Amin got to live out their years in comfort. Screw that!
Keep him home till the $$$ gets traced.