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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe says party will choose successor

Zimbabwe’s 89-year-old President Robert Mugabe said on Friday members of his party would choose his eventual replacement, but gave no timeline despite a mounting succession battle triggered by long-denied reports he is suffering from cancer. Mugabe, in power since the former white-ruled Rhodesia’s independence from Britain in 1980, was re-elected in a July 31 vote that was rejected by his…