MuggsyMugabe
Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...has refused to step down
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Hell no! The money's too good!...
, amid mounting pressure from the army on the former guerrilla to allow a smooth and bloodless transition.
The military demands seek to reinstate former Vice President Emerson Mnangagwa as first vice president and then as leader of a transitional administration.
According to an army statement broadcast on Zim-bob-we state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Friday, "significant progress" has been made in mediation talks aimed at ending Mugabe's military house arrest.
Mugabe is still resistant to demands to resign, but increasing internal calls from war veterans and the army could see Mugabe bringing Mnangagwa back into the fold and a possible end to the temporary takeover.