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		</div><div class="headline__subtitle"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-size:x-large;">One feast in a poverty-devastated province cost nearly $1 million.<br />
50,000 people attended ceremony, feasted on 50 cattle</span></span></div>
<p><span style="color:#660000;"><span style="font-size:large;">Listened to speeches and songs in his praise, </span></span><br />
<span style="color:#660000;"><span style="font-size:large;">Giant cake in the shape of the ancient ruins that the country was named after. </span></span><br />
<span style="color:#660000;"><span style="font-size:large;">The cake, per tradition, weighed 92 kg (more than 200 pounds), one kilogram for each of his 92 years</span></span></p>
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<div class="image__caption"><b>President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace at his &#8220;surprise&#8221; birthday party at State House in Harare on Monday. The 92 years old is the world&#8217;s oldest president. </b><br />
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<p>Saturday, in one of Zimbabwe&#8217;s most stricken provinces for drought and hunger, Mugabe staged his biggest birthday celebration yet this week.<br />
At the $800,000 celebration in Masvingo, southeastern Zimbabwe, Mugabe listened to speeches and songs in his praise, before cutting a giant cake in the shape of the ancient ruins that the country was named after. The cake, per tradition, <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201602270018.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly weighed 92 kg</a> (more than 200 pounds), one kilogram for each of his 92 years of age.</p>
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<div class="content-list-component text">State media said 50,000 people attended the ceremony and feasted on 50 cattle, quite the luxury, considering nearly 20,000 of the farm animals have died as a result of the recent drought, according to Zimbabwean officials.<br />
The day before his birthday bash, Mugabe donated 300 cows to the African Union Foundation, a newly created development arm of Africa&#8217;s 54-country alliance. The foundation aims to fund African development in science, technology and agriculture and enlist public and private sector contributions across the continent, stressing the importance of African self-reliance.</div>
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News of Mugabe&#8217;s donation to the African Union comes as Zimbabwe suffers from drought and widespread hunger. </b><br />
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<p>Zimbabwean opposition leaders were furious at Mugabe&#8217;s lavish celebrations.<br />
“Our dear leader is preparing a big birthday bash &#8230; among starving people,” opposition politician Simba Makoni told local media. &#8220;How cruel and uncaring at a time the chiefs and headmen in those areas are appealing for food assistance, and for ways of saving their dying livestock.&#8221;<br />
An opposition supporter posted a photo on Twitter this week purporting to show people in struggling Masvingo province protesting the party, holding banners reading &#8220;We want jobs, not bash.&#8221;<br />
One Zimbabwean economist, John Robertson, estimated that the $800,000 spent on Saturday&#8217;s party could pay a year’s school fees for 1,000 disadvantaged children.<br />
<span style="font-size:large;"><i>&#8216;Critics blame Mr Mugabe for many of the problems facing the country. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size:large;"><i>They say his policies, including the seizures and redistribution of white-owned commercial farms, drove one of Africa&#8217;s most promising economies into nearly a decade of deep recession until 2008 that cut its output almost in half.&#8217;</i></span><br />
Event organizers defended the lavish party, which they said Mugabe supporters had funded. &#8220;It is not like we are taking grain meant for drought programs to feed people at the celebrations,&#8221; said party organizer Tongai Kasukuwere, according to The Associated Press.<br />
Mugabe took the opportunity to make an hour-long speech in which he rejected foreign aid, despite recently declaring a state of disaster in parts of the country, and bizarrely suggested food assistance would be linked to LGBT rights.<br />
&#8220;If aid, as I understand, is to be given on the basis that we accept the principle of gay marriages, then let that aid stay were it is,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want it. It is rotten aid, filthy aid and we won&#8217;t have anything to do with it.&#8221;<br />
Mugabe blames his country&#8217;s economic woes on foreign sanctions. Critics say his government&#8217;s economic mismanagement and campaign of seizing land from white farmers is largely to blame. The country&#8217;s economy shrunk 50 percent during nearly a decade of recession before 2008, causing hyperinflation and widespread poverty.<br />
Despite his advancing years, Mugabe has no intention of giving up his title as the world&#8217;s oldest leader. &#8220;As long as I am alive I will rule the country,&#8221; he vowed last month.</p>
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Mugabe Holds Lavish 92nd Birthday Party In Drought-Stricken Zimbabwe. 50,000 people attended
