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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe shrugs off concerns over African Union retations with the West

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe appointed African Union chairman. [PHOTO: AFP]

 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday shrugged off concerns that his appointment as new African Union chairman would harm relations between the pan-African bloc and the West.

"What the West will say or do is not my business," Mugabe told a news conference at the close of two-day African Union summit held in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

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