Robert Mugabe condemns US envoy as 'idiot'

  • The Guardian,

President Robert Mugabe described the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs as "an idiot" after a meeting between the two at a summit in Libya, Zimbabwe's state media reported yesterday. The Herald newspaper carried the remarks after a briefing from Mugabe, right. US officials in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia, where assistant secretary of state Johnnie Carson is visiting, would not comment. According to the Herald paper, the president said: "You wouldn't speak to an idiot of that nature. I was very angry with him, and he thinks he could dictate to us what to do."

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