Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday blamed sanctions imposed by Western countries for his government's failure to pay salaries on time, in his first public comments after a week of unrest across the county, according to AP. The 92-year-old Mugabe, in power for 36 years, delivered his speech in the dark, explaining to supporters that he was late because he spent most of the day in meetings to solve internal differences in his ZANU-PF party. Government workers boycotted this week because they had not been paid their June salaries. The boycott was called off Thursday after government started paying them.
