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Portugal was prepared to allow President Robert Mugabe to attend the European Union-Africa summit in Lisbon despite protests from other EU members, if this was the price for ensuring that the summit took place.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell, whose mission was to allegedly to oust President Robert Mugabe, said a day before he left the country that Mugabe has survived for so long because he was “more clever and more ruthless than any other politician in Zimbabwe”.

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The Southern African Development Community reconciliation effort on Zimbabwe was in big trouble as both sides -the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front- were digging in.

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Zimbabwe was expected to be at the top of the agenda of the Southern African Development Community extraordinary summit in Tanzania but it was not clear whether President Robert Mugabe would attend.

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The Angolan government denied it was planning to send police to Zimbabwe arguing that the Zimbabwean government could handle its problems on its own.

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United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell, arguing that sanctions against Zimbabwe were working and there were increasing signs that President Robert Mugabe’s regime was crumbling and fragmenting, proposed to add more than 200 names to the United States sanctions list.

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Mutare North legislator Giles Mutsekwa was arrested with former MP Roy Bennett following the discovery of arms caches in Mutare. Reports said ten more suspects had also been arrested in connection with the case.

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Movement for Democratic Change legislator for Mutare north Giles Mutsekwa was arrested with eight other MDC supporters for allegedly helping to organise a stay-away ordered by the party.

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Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Bernard Membe urged the European Union to invite President Robert Mugabe to the EU-Africa summit that was scheduled for Lisbon that year so that they could discuss Zimbabwe with him in the room.

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President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front resorted to brute force to perpetuate his rule, United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell said.

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