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Malawian president picks largest cabinet in reshuffle More Africa Politics News ...Political column
2 april 2007, by Olmo von Meijenfeldt. The story goes that sometime in February this year angry former Zimbabwe army commander Solomon Mujuru stormed into President Robert Mugabe"s opulent and Malay built Chinese style mansion in Harare"s still lush Borrowdale suburb.
He demanded that President Mugabe step down. The row escalated. Mujuru pulled a pistol on the 83-year old Mugabe. Mugabe"s presidential guard in turn presented their AK47s. Mujuru"s security detail followed suit. An uneasy tension must have followed, where a simple sneeze could have led to a Scarface-styled bloodbath...
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