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Can world's oldest president, 93, hang on six more years?
HARARE, Zimbabwe — When Robert Mugabe held his 93rd birthday bash last month, he didn’t serve his guests elephant meat, as he did two years ago. Instead, he ordered up a 200-pound cake shaped like his Mercedes limousine. And a photographer snapped him enjoying American potato chips, an import he’s banned.The party was an opportunity for Mugabe to let everyone know that retirement is far from his mind. The only president this impoverished southern African country has known since it won international recognition as an independent state in 1980 vowed to run for another five-year term in 2018.