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President Robert Mugabe openly stated that he would not accept the results of the presidential elections run-off in 2008 if his party did not win, Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Bernard Membe said.

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United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Haile Menkerios said President Robert Mugabe was in denial about the increasing violence in the run-up to the 2008 presidential elections run-off claiming that some of the victims were feigning injuries to get assistance.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGhee did not find any new information on the violence that was endemic in Zimbabwe in the run-up to the presidential elections runoff when he visited Mashonaland East two weeks before the polls.

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The media has been awash with reports that President Robert Mugabe has terminal cancer and has less than two years to go, but he has already outlived his expected term in office and the first predicted date of death.

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The head of the Counselling Services Unit, Frances Lovemore, told United States embassy officials that the biggest mistake of the West was that it did not know the depths of evil of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front structures.

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Patrick Chinamasa has been one of the longest serving Justice Ministers in Zimbabwe. There is a reason for that. He is a shrewd political tactician, and a close confidante of President Robert Mugabe. Chinamasa who left his private practice first to become attorney-general and then Justice Minister was the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s chief negotiator in the talks that ultimately led to the formation of the inclusive government. Some observers say Chinamasa is one of Mugabe’s favourites because he always gets his way without breaking the law. There are 179 cables on him. Here they are.

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It is an insult and denigrating to call President Robert Mugabe, Mr, the United States embassy said in a cable dispatched shortly after the controversial 2008 elections.

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President Robert Mugabe was prepared to step down after his defeat in the 2008 elections but he was persuaded to stay on by senior members of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front who wanted to protect their own futures.

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The Japanese government was relieved when it learnt that President Robert Mugabe, who was under siege in his country after learning that he had been beaten by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, would not attend the Tokyo International Conference on African Development and quickly informed the United States.

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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade wanted President Robert Mugabe to accept the results of the march 2008 elections and respect human rights but at the same time he did not want the West to humiliate him in view of what he had done for his country.

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