Zimbabwe lives in misery but Mugabe gets £330,000 birthday bash: 8000 lobsters, 4000 portions of caviar...

Eight thousand lobsters and 4,000 portions of caviar were eaten last night at a birthday party for Robert Mugabe which was broadcast live to a nation facing famine. The £330,000 televised feast to celebrate the Zimbabwe president's 86th birthday came as crop failure and drought raised the prospect of widespread hunger in the poverty-stricken country. Mugabe's political opponents, the Movement for Democratic Change, said the food served was enough to feed 50 villages. The MDC branded the 12-hour all-night gala a 'senseless extravagance'. More...

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