Mugabe calls cabinet meeting on day of planned impeachment

A boy walks past newspaper posters in Harare, Zimbabwe November 20, 2017. /REUTERS
A boy walks past newspaper posters in Harare, Zimbabwe November 20, 2017. /REUTERS

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has called his cabinet for a meeting on Tuesday at his State House offices, the chief secretary to the president and cabinet said in a notice.

Tomorrow is the same day ruling party members plan to impeach him.

This is the first time the ministers are set to meet for their routine weekly meeting with Mugabe since the military took power on Wednesday.

Cabinet meetings are usually held at Munhumutapa Building in the centre of town, but an armoured vehicle and armed soldiers are camped outside the offices.

Meanwhile,

Zimbabwe's Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo, one of a number of officials purged from the ruling ZANU-PF party along with Mugabe, said on Monday he and at least 50 other senior party officials were "outside of the country."

Moyo made the comments on his Twitter handle, but the tweet was subsequently deleted. Moyo is one of many ZANU-PF members targeted by the ruling party in the wake of a military coup.

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