Mugabe Resigns as Zimbabwe's Leader After 37 Years

The BIGGEST PARTY TONIGHT IN AFRICA, DESTINATION ZIMABWE 



 HARARE, Zimbabwe—President Robert Mugabe has resigned, the speaker of Zimbabwe’s parliament said Tuesday, one week after tanks rolled into the capital and took control of the government.
Speaker Jacob Mudenda said he received a letter from Mr. Mugabe saying he would step down. The announcement was made as lawmakers were debating a motion to impeach the world’s oldest head of state, who has ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years.
It brings to an end a ​week of twists and turns for the resource-rich Southern African country and Mr. Mugabe, 93 years old, whose grip on power had become increasingly untenable.

Cheering crowds stormed the streets of the capital Harare, where hundreds of thousands marched on Saturday in their first free demonstrations in decades.

Mr. Mugabe, a former schoolteacher who toppled white-minority rule to become Zimbabwe’s first black leader, has been under house arrest since Tuesday night, when the military deployed tanks and soldiers throughout Harare and detained several of his closest allies.
“This is the best, this is the best,” said Emmanuel Tembo, a 51-year-old security guard at a Harare hotel. “We are tired of him. Thirty-seven years!”
The motion to impeach Mr. Mugabe had been moved by Christopher Mutsvangwa, the leader of the powerful association of veterans and a close ally of ousted former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa—considered Mr. Mugabe’s most likely successor—and James Maridadi, a lawmaker for Mugabe rival Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change.
Before the announcement, Mr. Mugabe faced intense pressure to resign.
Botswanan President Ian Khama, in an open letter published on his government’s Facebook page, said Mr. Mugabe should “do the honorable thing by voluntarily relinquishing power as the president of Zimbabwe.”
“The people of Zimbabwe have for a long time been subjected to untold suffering as a result of poor governance under your leadership,” Mr. Khama said.
African leaders had previously taken a careful line on the military’s intervention against Mr. Mugabe. Most have avoided referring to the operation as a coup or outright condemning it, while stopping short of demanding his resignation.

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