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 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - In a personal attack, President Robert Mugabe called a U.N. envoy "a liar" Friday for saying humanitarian conditions in Zimbabwe are nearing meltdown.
U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland, who ended a three-day fact-finding trip Wednesday, expressed alarm about massive food shortages and an AIDS epidemic that is killing an estimated 3,000 people a week.
"The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe is very serious," he told reporters after an hour-long meeting Tuesday with Mugabe in the capital of Harare.
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