{"id":7169,"date":"2017-11-21T21:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2017-11-21T21:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:19:39","slug":"zimbabwes-robert-mugabe-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/zimbabwes-robert-mugabe-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\u2019s Robert Mugabe resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7170\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Robert.jpg\" alt=\"Robert\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/>Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled his country for 37 years, resigned Tuesday following pressure from the military, protesters and a looming impeachment by parliament.<br \/>\nParliament Speaker Jacob Mudenda announced Tuesday that Mugabe had submitted his resignation letter to parliament.<br \/>\nIn the middle of the impeachment process, a notice of resignation was handed to Mudenda who immediately stopped the impeachment procedure.<br \/>\n\u201cI Robert G. Mugabe hereby formally tender my resignation as president of Zimbabwe with immediate effect,&#8221; read the speaker.<br \/>\nSouth African Television Enca showed live images of Zimbabweans celebrating on the streets of the capital Harare.<br \/>\nLast week, the Zimbabwean military took over the reins of the country and placed Mugabe, his wife and scores of his close ministers under house arrest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/zimbabwes-robert-mugabe-resigns\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled his country for 37 years, resigned Tuesday following pressure from the military, protesters and a looming impeachment by parliament. Parliament Speaker Jacob Mudenda announced Tuesday that Mugabe had submitted his resignation letter to parliament. In the middle of the impeachment process, a notice of resignation was handed to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}