President Robert Mugabe marked his 83rd birthday on Wednesday by imposing a three-month ban on all political rallies in Zimbabwe and suggesting that senior figures in his Zanu-PF party may be plotting against him.
The ban, imposed after weekend clashes between the police and supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, comes a week before the government imposes a four-month prices and incomes freeze and followed an announcement by Mr Mugabe on Tuesday that the country’s fledgling diamond mining industry would be nationalised.
