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2015-02-22 Africa Subsaharan
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Zimbabwe's Mugabe turns 91, slowly sheds pariah image
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 [REUTERS] Zim-bob-wean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
turned 91-years-old on Saturday showing no sign of giving up power as the West slowly eases pressure on a man who has been an international pariah for the last decade.
Last decade? How about 3.5 decades.
Mugabe, one of the Africa's most divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled ...
figures, is the only leader that Zim-bob-we has known since independence from Britannia in 1980.
An 'independence' agreed to by perfidious Albion, soon betrayed with sanctions, clandestine support for the left, and regime change from the West. The usual pattern and standard outcomes.
Leaders from his generation like South Africa's Nelson Mandela have died while others like Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda retired long ago, but Mugabe plans to run in the 2018 election, his last under a new constitution, when he will be 94.
Last December Mugabe fired his deputy of 10 years, changed the ruling party constitution to concentrate more power in his hands and promoted his wife Grace into the top rungs of the ZANU-PF decision-making politburo.
One-time veteran's advocate Grace awaits her turn. Wat an amazing coincidence.
The EU and United States imposed travel and financial sanctions on Mugabe and his acolytes in 2002 accusing the veteran leader of vote rigging and human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
violations.
Finger-wagging and remonstrating, Mugabe has said the West is punishing him for seizing white-owned commercial farms to resettle blacks and have sponsored his opponents at home.
I blame colonial Bybel thumping Tea Party people and Fox news. 
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