Sunday, December 21, 2008

Mugabe Refuses To Go To 'Political Death'

From AFP:

BINDURA, Zimbabwe (AFP) — President Robert Mugabe again dismissed demands that he step down Saturday, saying he would not go to his "political death" and urged his party to be ready for new polls in Zimbabwe.

The 84-year-old leader used his ZANU-PF party's 10th annual congress to brush off international pressure to quit office as his country buckles under a ruinous political crisis, economic meltdown and a cholera epidemic.

"It doesn't matter what happens, Zimbabwe is my country," the veteran president told the conference, a day after declaring he would "never surrender".

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