Mugabe hosts lavish party despite national crisis

Source: CNN

CHINHOYI, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was celebrating his 85th birthday with a lavish all-day party Saturday despite the fact that the country is gripped by an economic and health crisis.

Mugabe's ZANU-PF party said it raised at least $250,000 to hold the party in Mugabe's hometown of Chinhoyi, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) outside of the capital, Harare.

Critics of the president say the country is desperate for that amount of money to be spent instead on its citizens, who are suffering from a cholera outbreak, food shortages, and spiraling hyperinflation. On Friday, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai visited a hospital's closed intensive care unit that he said needed $30,000 to resume operating.

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That's a sickening lack of humanity on display for the world to see. Turns my stomach.

I guess people everywhere think they are the haves and the rest are the have nots.

In private, many people there will tell you that they wish that they had never gotten rid of Ian Smith.

And my insults don't get much worse than that.

Americans complaining about someones else money,why not complain about the billions we give Israel and Egypt,could there be a more sinister reason why me complain?.