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Trains, buses commandeered for Mugabe's b-day party
As many as 10,000 people were converging on a town in southern Zimbabwe for President Robert Mugabe's 84th birthday celebrations, state radio reported Friday. Many were traveling free on Organizers of Saturday's ceremonies said they raised about 3 trillion Zimbabwe dollars (or the equivalent of about $250,000 at the dominant black market exchange rate) for the bash amid chronic shortages of hard currency, gasoline, food and most basic goods. Mugabe, meanwhile, in a television broadcast marking his birthday on Thursday, described former ruling party loyalist Simba Makoni, 57, as a prostitute whose bid to challenge him in presidential elections March 29 was "absolutely disgraceful." Posted by: Seafarious 2008-02-23 |
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