Zimbabwe: President Deals UK Biggest Defeat in 60yrs

8 October 2013

PRESIDENT Mugabe's massive victory in the July 31 harmonised elections is the "biggest defeat" for the United Kingdom's foreign policy in Africa for 60 years, veteran British journalist and executive director of the Royal African Society writer Richard Dowden has said.

In his article published in the British magazine, Prospect on September 18 entitled "Mugabe Won, Britain Lost," Mr Dowden (71) said the British government and its ambassador in Harare Ms Deborah Bronnert and Foreign Secretary Mr William Hague were confident that MDC-T and Mr Morgan Tsvangirai would win, but were left shell-shocked by the scale of the MDC-T's defeat.

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