Zimbabwe’s Mugabe faces impeachment after ignoring deadline to quit

Zimbabwe's ruling party will discuss the impeachment of President Robert Mugabe on Monday after the 93-year-old despot ignored a deadline to end his nearly four decades in power after last week's military coup.  Impeachment could see the world’s oldest ruler kicked out by a vote in Parliament and would represent an ignominious end to the career of the "Grand Old Man" of African politics, who was once lauded across the continent as an anti-colonial hero.
ZANU-PF chief whip Lovemore Matuke told Reuters that the party's members in Parliament would meet Monday to start mapping out the president's removal. He has already been removed as party leader.  Mugabe stunned Zimbabweans in a rambling live television address late Sunday night in which he avoided any mention of resigning.  There was even speculation that he read the wrong speech, or skipped over passages about standing down.
Anxious Zimbabweans have been trying to decipher a barely audible aside comment he made to military chief Constantino Chiwenga at the end of the seech. In the audio, which is not clear, Mugabe refers to a "long speech" or a "wrong speech".  Moments afterward, war veterans leader Chris Mutsvangwa told Reuters they would lead public protests in the streets of Harare, the capital, to crank up the pressure on Zimbabwe's ruler of the last 37 years.
ZANU-PF's central committee on Sunday named Emmerson Mnangagwa as its new leader. It was Mugabe’s sacking of Mnangagwa as his vice president — paving the way for his wife, Grace, to succeed him — that triggered the army to seize control last Wednesday.