{"id":36290,"date":"2017-11-17T13:39:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/zimbabwe-latest-mugabe-makes-first-public\/"},"modified":"2017-11-17T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:41:06","slug":"zimbabwe-latest-mugabe-makes-first-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/zimbabwe-latest-mugabe-makes-first-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe latest: Mugabe makes first public appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr Mugabe had been under house arrest for days. The army made its move after a power struggle over his successor.<\/p>\n

The military said on Friday it was “engaging” with Mr Mugabe and would advise the public on the outcome of talks “as soon as possible”.<\/p>\n

Mr Mugabe was cheered by the crowd at the graduation ceremony after he spoke, a witness quoted by Reuters news agency says.<\/p>\n

Neither the 93-year-old president’s wife, Grace Mugabe, nor Education Minister Jonathan Moyo – an ally of hers whose house was reportedly raided by the military – were present.<\/p>\n

The army acted after Mr Mugabe sacked Vice-President Emmanuel Mnangagwa last week. Mr Mnangagwa was seen as a potential successor and his sacking paved the way for Mr Mugabe’s wife Grace Mugabe – who is four decades younger than him – to take over the presidency instead.<\/p>\n

Mr Mugabe’s attendance at the graduation is an annual tradition but few expected to see him there.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has made his first public appearance since the country’s army took over on Wednesday. He attended a graduation ceremony in the capital, Harare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2857],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-andrew-harding"],"bylines":[{"id":2857,"name":"Andrew Harding","slug":"andrew-harding","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2857,"name":"Andrew Harding","slug":"andrew-harding","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36290"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36290"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}