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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica 22 Feb 2016

    Robert Mugabe's staff have just presented him with a five-tier cake for his 92nd birthday http://bbc.in/1OpyGRh pic.twitter.com/T5AatrBEOs

    2:46 AM - 22 Feb 2016
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      2. PROUDLY  🇳🇬n‏ @aminujmz12 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica One of the few Pan-Africans alive. Wish you longer life. 🙌

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      1. Lt.Gen KGB‏ @KGBBONTU 22 Feb 2016
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        @BBCAfrica @mukhudit Aieee...I give up..this lavish kings are reason we r in a state of mess in the continent

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      2. philptaylor‏ @philiptaylor51 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica the cake appears to be falling over is this an omen for that rather nice Robert Mugabe?????

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      1. George Ghines‏ @GeorgeGhines 25 Feb 2016
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        @BBCAfrica happy birthday

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      1. Stringer Bell‏ @Mnu_Khufu 23 Feb 2016
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        @BBCAfrica Long Live!!!

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      1. Charles Quaye‏ @CharleQ 22 Feb 2016
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        @BBCAfrica He looking at it saying..."I am not going to have that. I will die for sure if I did. My staff want to kill me" #SweetPoison

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      1. kato isaac‏ @kisaackafeero 22 Feb 2016
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        @BBCAfrica @ogodwine happy birthday mugabe

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      1. aminatas‏ @aminatas2 22 Feb 2016
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        @BBCAfrica wow,beautiful

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      1. Akebu-Lan Muse‏ @KholaKrew 22 Feb 2016
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        @BBCAfrica not good for his dentures

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      1. Kleen Elfuego TATY‏ @UElfuego 22 Feb 2016
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        @BBCAfrica Mugabe, seul immortel zimbabwéen, il restera pierre sur terre! Ni la mort ne peut vaincre contre lui... C'est bien ça !

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      2. FairComment‏ @Rabbitstuffing 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica shameful with people starving under his policies he can't even buy his own cake - selfish tyrannical prick ! Die already

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      3.  👑‏ @iAmAugustine_ 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @Rabbitstuffing

        @Rabbitstuffing you have a shallow mind my friend. was he supposed to say no to the cake jus because someone is starving. its a gifts smh

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      4. FairComment‏ @Rabbitstuffing 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @iAmAugustine_

        @m23_re it's the principle my friend something very lacking in African states lending to continuous failed states and starving people

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      5.  👑‏ @iAmAugustine_ 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @Rabbitstuffing

        @Rabbitstuffing i concur but lets not rent that anger where it doesn't apply. It won't make sense.

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      2.  🔥FĒÀRLÈssJournålist  🇿🇼 🇿🇦‏ @MuformuFour 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica they should have given him a bomb

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      3.  👑‏ @iAmAugustine_ 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @MuformuFour

        @mugrade_seven uri mugrade seven sure

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      1. elhabs‏ @habeeb06 22 Feb 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @BBCAfrica mr mugabe, you better tell these people with white faces and pink noses to stop wailing on your birthday cake, is that democracy?

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