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Mugabe: how did it come to this?
Mugabe: how did it come to this?
Last Modified: 31 Mar 2008
By:
Jonathan Rugman
What does the future hold for Zimbabwe after an election in which President Mugabe is unlikely to relinquish power easily?
84 years old, and after 27 years in the job, Robert Mugabe is still clinging to power.
From 1970s revolutionary hero to an often ridiculed caricature of a dictator, Zimbabwe's president has only lost one referendum vote during his time in office - and is not expected to relinquish power easily.
No official figures on the presidential race have been released yet, though his opponents claim to have won 60 per cent of the poll.
Channel 4 News reports on how Robert Mugabe came to be in this position and what the future might hold.
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