Zimbabwe’s state election panel said Mr. Mugabe won a landslide
victory in the July 31 elections with 61 percent of the
presidential vote.   Dozens of buses brought Mugabe party
supporters to the stadium, set amid the impoverished townships
of western Harare, and four leading fast food chains delivered
fried chicken portions, fries and soda drinks in take-out
packages after receiving orders for 80,000 portions, organizers
and food company executives said. Party supporters thronged the
food delivery trucks outside the stadium. Police, some on
horseback, marshalled food lines that swelled during
formalities.  Previous inaugurations after elections since
independence have been held in the gardens of Mugabe’s State
House offices before small numbers of VIPs and invited guests.
There was no official explanation why this event was made into a
massive inauguration that takes Mr. Mugabe, in ailing health, to
the next elections in 2018, when he will be 94.  Mr. Mugabe, who
led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980, signed