Mugabe Off to Rome Unannounced, Against Travel Ban
Mugabe Off to Rome Unannounced, Against Travel Ban
President Robert Mugabe has traveled to Rome for the funeral of the late Pope John Paul II, unannounced and against a travel ban imposed on him by the European Union.
A report by the UK Christian think-tank Ekklesia said this act saw him branded ’shameless’ back home.
The trip defied a European Union travel sanctions imposed on him in 2002 after its observers were barred from disputed presidential elections, at which Mugabe claimed a further six-year term.
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