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The United States on Monday sanctioned Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, its first lady and other government officials for their alleged involvement in corruption and human rights abuses.
The Zimbabwean government claimed to have foiled an alleged coup in May 2017. According to the government, the soldiers planned on forcibly removing President Robert Mugabe from office and asking Rural Housing Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa to form a government with the heads of the armed forces.
Mnangagwa was re-elected in the August 2023 general election with 52.6% of the vote. [2] Mnangagwa was born in 1942 in Shabani, Southern Rhodesia, to a large Tonga family . His parents were farmers, and in the 1950s he and his family were forced to move back to their country Northern Rhodesia because of his father's political activism.
Emmerson Mnangagwa remained in office, and 10 years later was sworn in as President of Zimbabwe on 24 November 2017, [11] after the resignation of Robert Mugabe following the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état, a removal that was however recognized by the African Union as a legitimate expression of the will of the Zimbabwean people. [12]
24 November - Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in as the third President of Zimbabwe with elections pending next year. [11] 25 November - Former finance minister Ignatius Chombo, arrested during the coup, is charged by the courts with corruption, fraud and power abuse. [12]
In 2017, new President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inaugural speech promised to pay compensation to the white farmers whose land was seized during the land reform programme. [22] Rob Smart became the first white farmer whose land was returned after President Mnangagwa was sworn in to office; he returned to his farm in Manicaland province by military ...
There are hopes that Mnangagwa would reverse Zimbabwe's decades-long persecution of LGBTQ people, led by the virulently homophobic former President Mugabe. [ 32 ] In January 2018, Mnangagwa spoke on the issue of LGBTQ rights for the first time, saying: "Those people who want it [same-sex marriage] are the people who should canvass for it, but ...
In November 2017, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as president and party leader of ZANU–PF and was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa.. On the evening of 14 November 2017, elements of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) gathered around Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, and seized control of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and key areas of the city.