The military moved in with tanks and armored vehicles securing government buildings, the National Broadcaster and placing Robert Mugabe and his wife under house arrest.
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Things have been steadily deteriorating in the country as the contest over who will succeed Mugabe has been hotting up.
The 93 years old president who has been ruling the country via rigged elections for 37 years, made a fatal miscalculation in the last couple of weeks . He fired his deputy president who was essentially competing against his attempts to hand over the presidency to his wife.
Mugabe's long term has been significantly tarnished, by heading a repressive regime with much blood on its hands as it has done whatever it takes to cling to power.
Under his presidency he turned Zimbabwe from the "bread basket" of Africa into the "basket case" of Africa.
