Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe looks on during the annual conference of his ZANU-PF party in Gweru, west of the capital Harare, December 7, 2012. Africa's oldest leader denied accusations by the rival Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai that ZANU-PF was playing dirty ahead of the presidential and parliamentary polls.
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