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Why Robert Mugabe scored a landslide victory in Zimbabwean elections

August 6, 2013

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Why Robert Mugabe scored a landslide victory in Zimbabwean elections Triumph for president and his party Zanu-PF cannot be dismissed as rigging and obstruction by the incumbent Blessing-Miles Tendi The Guardian UK HARARE- There is a phenomenon in African politics called the preponderance of incumbency. Simply put, it maintains that it is difficult to defeat […]

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India creates a new state called Telangana

August 6, 2013

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Demands for new Indian states revive after Telangana created By Amy Kazmin Financial Times NEW DELHI- Globally renowned for tea estates that produce some of the most delicate, and highly-prized teas, India’s mountainous Darjeeling region was rocked for most of the 1980s by strikes and protests by the indigenous Gorkha community, who were demanding the […]

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