HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe launched a "fight of our life" campaign on Friday to extend his three-decade grip on power in a July 31 election already being criticised as poorly planned, underfunded and plagued with irregularities.
Speaking to tens of thousands of supporters in a sports ground in Harare's Highfield township, the 89-year-old said his ZANU-PF party wanted to stay in office to push through its plans to increase black ownership of the economy.
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