Mugabe breaks off, latest short visit to Zimbabwe and flies off to Mozambique

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe left Harare Wednesday for Maputo, Mozambique, where he will attend the country’s 40th Independence commemorations.

Mugabe was seen off at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Defence Minister Dr Sidney Sekeramayi, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda and service chiefs.

Mozambique will Thursday mark 40 years of independence from Portuguese rule.

Mugabe has been out of the country for more than 20 times of late, spending millions of scarce cash as he travels with a large entourage.

The latest trip comes after he recently returned from South Africa where he attended an African Union summit.

Before that, he was in Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and Sudan.

Now termed the visiting president in Zimbabwe, Mugabe, this year alone, has been to the Far East five times and also visited six African capitals.

His frequent trips abroad have been described as a burden to the strained fiscus and poorly timed because of the urgent economic crisis his government has to attend to.

Local media reports have estimated his travel to have gobbled over $70 million so far.

Mnangagwa is the acting president. source-newzimbabwe

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