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handle is hein.crs/crsmthmbdfs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CRS INSIGHT Zimbabwe's Political Transition: Issues for Congress November 22, 2017 (IN10826) 1 Related Authors • Katherine Z Terrell Nicolas Cook, Specialist in African Affairs (ncok(,crs.Ic gov, 7-0429) Katherine Z. Terrell, Fellow in African Affairs (k, 7-5050) In mid-November 2017, spurred by an intra-part rivalry within the ruling Zimbabwe National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party to succeed President Robert Mugabe, 93, the Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF) seized control of key national political and military facilities. The ZDF then initiated efforts to force Mugabe to resign, reverse Mugabe's recent dismissal of Vice President Emmerson Mnangaga in favor of Mugabe's wife, (aMugabe, and halt ZANU-PF's purge of Mnangagwa's supporters. (See CRS Insight IN10819, Zimbabwe: A Militarv-Comvelled Transition?, and for further Zimbabwe background, CRS Report R44633, Zimbabwe: Current Issues and L.& Policv.) ZANU-PF trmvdMllgak- as party leader, appointed Mnangagwa as his interim successor, and expelled Grace Mugabe and several of her allies. Preempting an impeachment vote, Mugabe resigned November 21. Zimbabweans' initial reactions to the ZDF intervention appeared broadly positive. They turned out for large, peaceful demonstrations, and, after the resignation, celebrations. International responses to the military intervention have been cautious: the Afnia Union (AU), the uthern African Development Cmmunity (SADC), and the United States-which

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