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Efforts to isolate Zimbabwe have failed - Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has said that British efforts to isolate his government internationally over its seizures of white farms have failed. Speaking at a weekend ceremony to remember heroes of Zimbabwe’s independence war, Mugabe accused Britain of trying to undermine his plans to redistribute white-owned land to the black majority. “It is indeed more than unfortunate that the government’s noble responsibility of acquiring land and giving it to the people... should have drawn so much wrath from Britain which has and continues to lobby the international community to politically and economically isolate Zimbabwe,” he said.

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