HEAD OF AFRICAN UNION SAYS BODY WILL NOT ACCEPT ZIMBABWE COUP

The Head of the African Union (AU) Alpha Conde has, on Thursday, gone against a supposed military coup d’etat in Zimbabwe.

Antecedent: Robert Mugabe and wife, Grace were placed under house arrest by the Military. Although, ZANU-PF has said it was only a bloodless transition.

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“We demand respect for the constitution, a return to the constitutional order and we will never accept the military coup d’etat,” Alpha Conde said in an interview with French journalists in Paris.

“We know there are internal problems. They need to be resolved politically by the ZANU-PF party and not with an intervention by the army,” added Mr Conde.