SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Egyptian security has ramped up restrictions on journalists covering the African Union summit after a British TV crew got into a verbal scuffle with Robert Mugabe.
Many reporters were not allowed to leave the press area at Sharm El-Sheikh on Tuesday.
The British network ITN approached Mugabe outside the conference hall on Monday and a reporter asked him how he could regard himself as president.
Mugabe responded gruffly that it was on the same basis as Gordon Brown is prime minister of Britain. He later said the reporter asked “stupid questions. TV footage also showed Mugabe’s guards pushing the reporter away from Mugabe.
Mugabe was sworn in for a sixth term Sunday in a widely disputed runoff many have called a sham. -AP
