Zimbabwe's Mugabe booed in parliament over economic crisis

[WorldNews]

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Zimbabwe's veteran President Robert Mugabe was booed and heckled by opposition lawmakers over the deteriorating economy as he gave his state of the nation address to parliament Tuesday. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) lawmakers questioned his economic policies, jeering as the 91-year-old delivered a policy speech which lasted less than half an hour. When Mugabe -- who has been in power since Zimbabwe's independence from Britain in 1980 -- outlined his government's plan to improve the economy, one lawmaker yelled at him to admit that "you can't do much about it".

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