Robert Mugabe Fires Vice President As Zimbabwe's Succession Battle Intensifies

The battle to succeed Robert Mugabe intensified on Monday after the aging Zimbabwean president fired a long-serving deputy long seen as his heir apparent. Emmerson Mnangagwa, who had served as vice president since 2014 and who was exiled alongside Mr Mugabe during the 1970s war against white minority rule, was fired on Monday for "disloyalty, disrespect, deceit and being unreliable,” the via IFTTT