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Harare - Thousands of supporters of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe gathered at his party's headquarters in Harare on Friday in what may have been a failed attempt to stage a million-man march, reports said.War veterans said earlier this month they were planning to hold a million-man march in support of the veteran leader, who plans to stand for a fourth term in office in elections next year.Although no date for the march was publicly announced, reports on independent Zimbabwe news websites suggested it had been set for Friday.In a late-night news bulletin, official state television said the number of people gathered for Friday's march by far outnumbered those who had gathered for previous demonstrations in solidarity with the 83-year-old president.The sheer number of people who turned up forced organisers to abandon the plan to march through the central business district because it would have disrupted traffic and brought business to a standstill, the report said.Footage of the gathering showed crowds, but nowhere near a million people.As in the days of Noah...
