2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état

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The 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état was a bloodless military coup that took place in Zimbabwe on 14 to 21 November 2017, when Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as president and party leader of ZANU–PF and was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa. On the evening of 14 November 2017, elements of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) gathered around Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, and seized control of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and key areas of the city. The next day, the ZDF issued a statement saying that it was not a coup d'état and that President Mugabe was safe, although the situation would return to normal only after the ZDF had dealt with the "criminals" around Mugabe responsible for the socio-economic problems of Zimbabwe. Jacob Zuma, the then president of South Africa, phoned Mugabe and was told that Mugabe was under house arrest but otherwise "fine". The uprising took place amid tensions in the ruling ZANU–PF party between former first vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa...

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