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Rwandan leader Paul Kagame was warned eight years ago not to go the Robert Mugabe way when he won his second term of office as the country’s president but last year he contested the elections and won another seven-year term.

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Zimbabwe has the third highest number of asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, after Afghanistan and Iraq, according to figures released this week. The figures were for the 10 year period from 2001 to 2010.

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Britain had no say over President Robert Mugabe’s recent visit to Rome where he attended the beatification of Pope John Paul 11 because the Holy See is not a member of the European Union and the Vatican has bilateral relations with Zimbabwe.

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India refused to endorse a statement by the Community of Democracies condemning Zimbabwe’s 2008 elections which appeared to have been spearheaded by the United States and went on to withdraw its support for a Diplomat’s Handbook which it had earlier endorsed.

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The black and white television set that has been my faithful partner for the past 17 years has just packed up. But I cannot send it for repairs because nominally…

Britain is committed to European Union sanctions on Zimbabwe and will not be “shifted by coerced signatures on a partisan petition”, the Minister for Europe David Liddington told the House of Commons.

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Britain must not take its eyes off the ball in Zimbabwe because too many lives have been lost in that country and too many people have suffered through the tyranny and thuggishness of President Robert Mugabe, a British Member of Parliament said last week.

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Zimbabwe is being run by a madman who is destroying the country and it is amazing that Zimbabweans have been able to stand the pressure over the years, a British Member of Parliament told the House of Commons last week.

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Britain might look at alternatives ways to deal with Zimbabwe’s Marange diamonds outside the European Union, the Under Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Henry Bellingham said on Tuesday.

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A Movement for Democratic Change government will ensure that the land issue is brought to finality and will ensure that there is security of tenure, restoration of market for land and more importantly that every Zimbabwean despite race or political affiliation is entitled to own land.

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