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Britain revoked the knighthood it had bestowed on President Robert Mugabe in 1994 as a sign of its displeasure with his decision to go ahead with the 2008 presidential elections run-off.

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Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Bernard Membe was thoroughly fed up with South African President Thabo Mbeki’s refusal to confront President Robert Mugabe even though there was evidence of ongoing violence and atrocities in the run-up to the 2008 presidential elections run-off.

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The head of the African Union observer mission to the presidential elections run-off of 2008, former Sierra Leone President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, said the elections fell short of the accepted AU standards.

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South Africa was an anchor country in United States-Africa policy but Zimbabwe remained a continuing challenge and an increasing concern to Pretoria because President Robert Mugabe showed little willingness to open the political environment and allow free and fair elections.

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African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma’s advisor Mo Shaik told United States embassy officials in Pretoria that the United States should not hold any notion that Zuma would favour Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

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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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