Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Wins the Latest Round of Zimbabwe’s Succession Battle

ZANU-PF’s conference strengthened the president’s position, but Chiwenga’s defiance signals that the struggle for power is far from over.

The intense power struggle that has been simmering between Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and First Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga resurfaced at last week’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) annual conference in Chinhoyi.

The media made much about Chiwenga’s speech in which he appeared to warn Mnangagwa that he was in danger…