id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5632 Zimbabwe - Wikipedia .html text/html 25875 3364 62 On 15 November 2017, in the wake of over a year of protests against his government as well as Zimbabwe's rapidly declining economy, Mugabe was placed under house arrest by the country's national army in a coup d'état.[22][23] On 19 November 2017, ZANU–PF sacked Robert Mugabe as party leader and appointed former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his place.[24] On 21 November 2017, Mugabe tendered his resignation prior to impeachment proceedings being completed.[25] On 30 July 2018 Zimbabwe held its general elections,[26] which was won by the ZANU–PF party led by Emmerson Mnangagwa.[27] Nelson Chamisa who was leading the main opposition party MDC Alliance contested the election results and filed a petition to the Constitution Court of Zimbabwe.[28] The court confirmed Mnangagwa's victory, making him the newly elected president after Mugabe.[29][30] During the elections of February 1980, Robert Mugabe and the ZANU party secured a landslide victory.[63] Prince Charles, as the representative of Britain, formally granted independence to the new nation of Zimbabwe at a ceremony in Harare in April 1980.[64] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5632.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5632.txt