2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état

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In November 2017, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as president and party leader of ZANU–PF and was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa.

A Zimbabwe Defence Forces APC in downtown Harare during the coup

Robert Mugabe and Grace Mugabe in 2013

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Citizens in the streets of Harare, 19 November 2017

Robert Mugabe

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Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and as a socialist after the 1990s.

Mugabe in 1979

Mugabe was inspired by the example set by Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah.

Joshua Nkomo became one of the leading figures of resistance to white minority rule in Southern Rhodesia.

While Mugabe was imprisoned, Ian Smith became leader of Rhodesia.