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A British online magazine Spiked says despite its protestations about Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe’s victory at the weekend, the West has toned down its vitriol on the Zimbabwean leader.

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Britain’s daily Telegraph says Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai must now do the decent thing. He must resign his leadership of the MDC and retire from politics.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigations yesterday issued a press statement on the alleged sanctions busting case in which two men from Chicago are reported to have been hired by the Zimbabwean government to lobby for the lifting of sanctions on President Robert Mugabe and his lieutenants.

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Two men from Chicago are reported to have been charged yesterday, one in absentia, with trying to assist President Robert Mugabe to lobby for the lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe.

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The cat is out of the bag. Britain did not want Robert Mugabe to win the elections because he now has the power to force through his indigenisation policies where foreign-owned companies will have to employ Zimbabweans irrespective of their qualifications, according to British conservative Member of Parliament Oliver Colvile.

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There were at least one million dead voters on the voters’ roll, 350 000 people who were over 85 and 109 000 who were over 100 years.

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has congratulated President Robert Mugabe on his victory in last week’s elections but called on Mugabe to ensure that all those who oppose the conduct of the polls and the results are given an opportunity to seek lawful redress.

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Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has called on African nations to leave Zimbabwe alone and respect the right of the people of Zimbabwe to choose their own leader.

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Botswana became the first African country to challenge Zimbabwe’s election results and said it will lobby southern African leaders for an audit of the disputed poll.

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Guardian columnist Blessing-Miles Tendi today said President Robert Mugabe’s victory in the just ended elections where he polled 61 percent of the vote and walked away with more than two-thirds of the parliamentary seats cannot be dismissed merely as rigging and obstruction by the incumbent.

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