Mugabe under house arrest as military takes control

Zimbabwe's military was in control of the country on Wednesday as President Robert Mugabe said he was under house arrest and his generals denied staging a coup. Mugabe's decades-long grip on power appeared to be slipping as armoured military vehicles blockaded parliament, soldiers took up positions at strategic points across Harare and senior soldiers commandeered state television to broadcast a late-night address. "The president... and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed," Major General Sibusiso Moyo said late Tuesday.

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