Zimbabwe military general replaces Kirsty Coventry as sports minister

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa connected Tuesday appointed the country’s subject brag to regenerate Kirsty Coventry arsenic sports minister.

Mnangagwa said that Gen. Anselem Sanyatwe, commandant of the Zimbabwe National Army, has replaced Coventry pursuing her predetermination arsenic caller president of the International Olympic Committee.

The 41-year-old Coventry, Africa’s astir palmy Olympian, received a lukewarm invited successful Harare. She's the archetypal pistillate and archetypal African to beryllium elected caput of the planetary Olympic movement.

Coventry had said she volition resign from her minister’s occupation to determination to the Olympic location metropolis of Lausanne successful Switzerland. Her eight-year word successful complaint of the IOC begins successful June.

Still, Mnangagwa's connection said Coventry had been “relieved” pursuing her “deserved election" to the IOC post.

The prime of Sanyatwe has sparked statement successful the politically unstable Southern African country.

Sanyatwe moving to a furniture relation could beryllium viewed arsenic a downgrade from the all-powerful subject presumption fixed Zimbabwe’s governmental concern pursuing the army-assisted ouster of Robert Mugabe successful 2017.

The president's connection besides said Sanyatwe was being “terminated” from his subject position.

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