For all the negative reactions provoked by Robert Mugabe, the long-serving Zimbabwean president, few could begrudge acknowledging his skills as one of the world’s great political survivors. He will celebrate turning 90 today in a style emblematic of the way he has run the country since 1980 – with a lavish Dh3.67m party in defiance of an ailing economy and while many ordinary Zimbabweans go hungry.
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