Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s iron-fisted president, Robert Mugabe, has called on the world to stop sending food to his starving country. “Why foist this food upon us?” he said in a rare TV interview on Sky News. “We don’t want to be choked, we have enough.” Mugabe also rejected reports of human rights abuses against his opponents, and attacked two critics—South Africa’s Bishop Desmond Tutu and Zimbabwe’s Bishop Pius Ncube—as “unholy men.” Iden Wetherell, editor of the Zimbabwe Independent, said the interview proved Mugabe was “delusional,” adding, “All he can do is shake his fists at a world he no longer understands.”
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