[lb1lf]

According to (whoever controls...) the official Zanu-PF twitter account, Robert Mugabe and his wife has been detained.

The former vice president, Mnangagwa (who was sacked by Mugabe last week, so that his wife Grace could take the #2 spot) is acting president, according to an army statement.

Also, reports of gun and artillery fire from northern Harare - the district where Mugabe and his cronies live.

Also, predictably, the army claims this is not a coup, and that they are merely acting to preserve the constitution and the republic. (That being said, if one is to stage a coup somewhere, one could find a less deserving country than Zimbabwe; let's just hope the army has the good sense to hand over power to civilian authorities ASAP.)

[tasssko]

I know people that live in northern Harare and they haven't heard any gun and artillery fire. They live within a 3-5km radius of RM and his cronies also they haven't seen any tanks - yet. All very curious, but something is up.

[gaius]

According to Wikipedia, Zimbabwe's army has no serviceable tanks.

[anon989]

That is not their official twitter handle. I wouldn't take what they tweet as an official statement from ZanuPF