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Social unrest rises against Mugabe in Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe — President Robert Mugabe has faced down opposition before, but with the Zimbabwean economy tanking, his party divided and security forces unpaid, a new cadre of protesters is daring to hope for change after 36 years of rule by the aging strongman.“The man is now very old and tired,” Pedzisai Ruhanya, director of the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute, said of the 92-year-old Mr. Mugabe, the world’s longest-serving chief executive. “What we are seeing today is a frail Mugabe whose party has no future after him. The people are saying ‘no.’”