Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe accused some members of his own Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party of abusing their powers and called for greater unity, the state-controlled Herald reported.

There are “hooligans” in the party, the 85-year-old leader told a congress of the party in Harare yesterday, the newspaper said.

ZANU PF must unite against the Morgan Tsvangirai-led Movement for Democratic Change, which Mugabe said was backed by the UK government, the Herald cited him as saying.

ZANU PF lost control of parliament’s lower House of Assembly in elections last year for the first time since independence in 1980. The party is holding its five-yearly congress in Harare this week.

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