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Article: Mugabe flouts travel ban to visit Italy

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June 2, 2008
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ROBERT MUGABE defied an EU travel ban to fly into Italy for a food crisis summit.

The 84-year-old Zimbabwe president arrived in the Italian capital last night with his wife Grace and agriculture minister Rugare Gumbo.

It was Mr Mugabe's first trip outside Zimbabwe since contested elections were held in March. Although he is the subject of an EU travel ban, the Rome summit is organised by the UN, which means he can attend.

It is not the first time he has flouted the travel ban in 2005 he flew to Rome for Pope John Paul II's ...

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