BREAKING: President Mugabe Resigns

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has resigned amid pressure from all corners, Reuters reports.

Speaker of the country’s parliament Jacob Mudenda told lawmakers on Tuesday, ending a 37-year rule.

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“I Robert Gabriel Mugabe in terms of section 96 of the constitution of Zimbabwe hereby formally tender my resignation… with immediate effect,” said speaker Mudenda, reading the President’s letter of resignation.

The development comes hours after impeachment proceedings began in the country’s parliament.

Celebration broke out in the streets of Zimbabwe, after the announcement with thousands of Zimbabweans seen jubilating, hugging and embracing each other..

Mugabe was on Sunday fired as leader of the ruling ZANU-PF part, and replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa, former Vice President he sacked this month.

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Mugabe’s wife Grace, who had harbored ambitions of succeeding Mugabe, was also expelled from the party, with the move seen as a step closer to the total removal of the nation’s first family.

Mugabe had stunned the nation on Sunday when he refused to say in a live televised address if he was stepping down.

His party had given him 24 hours to resign or be impeached after military seized power and kept him under house arrest.

On Saturday, thousands of Zimbabweans had taken to the streets calling for him to go.

But in a bizarre and rambling speech, Mugabe instead insisted he was going nowhere, and that he would see his political party Zanu-PF through its congress in a few weeks.

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