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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Zimbabwe and the fall of Robert Mugabe, Explained
Description: Zimbabwe has had exactly one leader in its entire 37 year history as an independent country. That was, until November 14th Robert Mugabe was deposed in an apparent coup. What happens next is still very much in the air. Right now, Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace are under an apparent house arrest, though it seems he may soon be forced into exile. Meanwhile, his recently sacked vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa seems to be calling the shots.   On the line with me to discuss recent events in Zimbabwe and offer some deeper context in which to understand how, after 37 year...