Mugabe cautions army, police, CIO

In a sensational pronouncement, President Robert Mugabe has warned the army, the police and the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) against participating and meddling in the post-congress Zanu PF's seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars.

Contrary to expectations, the party's deadly factional fights have worsened since the brutal ouster from power of former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her close allies on untested claims of plotting to remove Mugabe from office illegally and even planning to assassinate the long-ruling nonagenarian.

Mugabe revealed both his frustration with, and impotence in the face of the ugly brawls that are ripping the former liberation movement apart.