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When Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga referred to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as 'a dinosaur' last year, his party received an angry phonecall from Futungo de Belas in Luanda warning that gratuitous insults against Comrade Mugabe would mean the end of campaign funds from oil-rich Angola for Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)....

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Kenya, Raila Odinga, Robert Mugabe, Angola, Morgan Tsvangirai, Mwai Kibaki,, Simba Makoni, Futungo de Belas