(BBC News) Robert Mugabe has lost his grip on power and been replaced by his wife, Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe's opposition leader has claimed.
Morgan Tsvangirai said that the 91-year-old president's wife is now effectively in charge after a "palace coup", and that the government has been paralysed as members of the ruling party jockey for position.
"No one in government is thinking of solutions to the national challenges as everyone is preoccupied with issues of who will succeed this tired man steering the ship of state," Tsvangirai was quoted by South Africa's Mail and Guardian newspaper as saying.
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