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		</div><p>Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, who turns 93 in February, has been endorsed as the ruling party&#8217;s candidate in a national election scheduled for 2018.</p>
<p>The ruling Zanu-PF party announced its support in the south-east town of Masvingo, where the party&#8217;s youth wing even proposed that Mr Mugabe should rule for life with broad powers.</p>
<p>Opposition groups have described such adulation as a sign that Mr Mugabe and his loyalists are out of touch with the desperation of a nation that is suffering massive unemployment, cash shortages and company closures.</p>
<p>Despite the praise, Mr Mugabe has acknowledged that some people within the ruling party have wanted him to quit.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Let us stop fighting each other,&#8221;</i> he said, referring to the succession fights that have engulfed his party.</p>
<p>Mr Mugabe has been in power since the southern African nation&#8217;s independence from white minority rule in 1980.</p>
<p>But a deteriorating economy has increased the pressure on him, and he has faced opposition protests in the past year.</p>
<p>Even so, the Zanu-PF party rallied around Mr Mugabe at its annual conference. Most delegates wore the party&#8217;s colours of red, green, black and yellow, as well as Mr Mugabe&#8217;s portrait.</p>
<p>Speaker after speaker extolled his virtues.</p>
<p>One cabinet minister named Supa Mandiwanzira did so by making a pun about his own first name.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I am not super, Mr President. It is you who is super,&#8221;</i> he said, introducing the president.</p>
<p>Kudzai Chipanga, leader of the party&#8217;s youth wing, suggested that Mr Mugabe&#8217;s ID and birth certificate should be changed to read President Robert Mugabe.</p>
<p>Mr Mugabe, who won the 2013 election that was marred by allegations of voting irregularities, has seemed frail at times but still travels widely and says he wants to live to 100.</p>
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