Mugabe speaks out to defend reform plan in Zimbabwe

Friday, September 6, 2002

HARARE, Zimbabwe -- In a rare interview with foreign journalists, President Robert Mugabe defended Zimbabwe's land redistribution program Thursday and denied that his seizure of white-owned commercial farms had worsened the nation's hunger crisis.

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