Officials Deny Report on Mugabe Retirement
From Times Wire Services
Ruling party and opposition officials denied considering a deal to end Zimbabwe’s political crisis by having President Robert Mugabe retire.
Independent mediators and an opposition leader had said that under the deal, Mugabe would hand control to a power-sharing government. But armed forces chief Gen. Vitalis Zvinavashe, one of two key ruling party figures said to be working on the plan, dismissed the idea as “the work of enemies bent on destroying Zimbabwe.”
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