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Newshour: Robert Mugabe Defies Resignation Calls

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19/11/2017 GMT

Robert Mugabe Defies Resignation Calls

BBC World Service - Newshour, Robert Mugabe Defies Resignation Calls

The Zimbabwean president refuses to step down as he addresses the nation

The president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has defied intense pressure to stand down. In a twenty-minute televised address, Mr Mugabe, flanked by military generals, said he intended to lead next month's congress of the ruling party, ZANU-PF. A party spokesman says they are following due process, but the opposition and the powerful war veterans group tell us they will go ahead with their efforts to impeach the president.

Also in the programme: The Haitians with a very uncertain in the future in the US; and hope for Argentina's missing submarine?

(Image: Robert Mugabe delivers a televised address to the nation. Credit: AFP/ZBC/Getty Images)

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