Zimbabwe: Démodé Candidate Mugabe Courts Elusive Youth Vote

President Robert Mugabe, one of the oldest presidential candidates in history, is building his re-election plank for next year's polls on the youth, despite a poor record on a key issue for the demographic -- employment creation.

Mugabe, who will be 94 next year, is actively seeking the youth vote after spectacularly falling out with a significant faction of veterans of the 1970s war of liberation.

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