BRITISH officials denied reports on Thursday the former colonial power had plans to evacuate British citizens from strife ridden Zimbabwe. The British Embassy released a statement denying a report in an independent Zimbabwean newspaper that Britain was planning the mass evacuation of some 25 000 white Zimbabweans with British citizenship in the face of the southern African nation’s deepening political crisis. The statement, however, noted that the British government did have general contingency plans for emergencies. – AFP