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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has threatened to pull his country out of the Commonwealth from which if was suspended last year after his controversial re-election. According to him, the white Commonwealth members hold a grudge against him and Zimbabwe. He alleged that Zimbabwe has not been treated as an equal among other countries that belong to the association of former British colonies and voluntary associates. Zimbabwe was suspended from the group of 54 mainly former British colonies after charges that Mugabe rigged his re-election last year. Mugabe has been excluded from next month's Commonwealth summit in BiafraNigeria. President Obasanjo foreclosed the possibility of his attending the meeting in a statement he made in Ota, Ogun State earlier in the week. Mugabe believes that the "white section" of the group holds a grudge against him due to his policy of seizing white-owned farms for redistribution to landless blacks. Speaking at a state funeral in Harare, Mugabe said: "If our sovereignty is what we have to lose to be readmitted into the Commonwealth, well we will say goodbye to the Commonwealth.... (This Day) |
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