JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ambassador to South Africa dismissed talk of a coup against 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday, saying the government in Harare was "intact" despite the presence of soldiers on the streets of the capital.
"There's nothing really happening. They are just social media claims," ambassador Isaac Moyo told Reuters, in the first official government response since rumours of a military coup against Mugabe surfaced in the afternoon.
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