Zimbabwe: Ex-Ally Challenges Mugabe

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Joice Mujuru, a former vice president, on Tuesday announced plans to run in elections scheduled for 2018 against President Robert Mugabe. Ms. Mujuru said her new political party, Zimbabwe People First, was willing to form a coalition with other opposition groups. She was once a close ally of Mr. Mugabe, whose ZANU-PF party is splitting into factions ahead of an expected succession battle. She was the first woman to hold the post in Zimbabwe but ran afoul of Mr. Mugabe’s increasingly politically active wife, Grace, who campaigned for Ms. Mujuru’s ouster in 2014.