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Robert Mugabe in Rome for UN food summit
Robert Mugabe arrived in Rome on Saturday for a United Nations summit on food, the ANSA agency reported. The controversial Zimbabwean leader is banned from visiting the EU apart from for international meetings.
By News Wires (text)
AFP - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived in Rome on Saturday for a United Nations summit on food, the ANSA agency reported.
Under sanctions imposed in 2002, Mugabe is banned from visiting European Union countries, but the restriction does not apply to trips for international meetings.
Mugabe and his 60-strong delegation arrived at Fiumicino airport on a private flight to take part in the Food and Agriculture Organisation's three-day World Summit on Food Security, which opens on Monday.
In 2000, the Zimbabwean leader launched land reforms which have seen more than 4,000 white farmers forced off their land.
Mugabe has defended the measures as a necessary redress to colonial-era imbalances, but the country has gone from being an exporter of food to depending on international aid for survival.
Around 60 heads of state and government leaders are expected in Rome for the summit.
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Comments (4)
economic situation
He should have taken more measures about the development of his own country and its economy. Visiting the UN food summit would never turn him a good person nor his accusations will be freed.
mugabe is right!!!
why media is focussed on mugabe's land reform program!why,land reform is good for zimbabweans because its their right to have their land back from the cold hearted whites who grabbed the land during the cancerous epoch of colonisation.viva cde R.G MUGABE!A man should not swallow his cough in fear of disturbing others.capitalism is one of the western model which siphoned resources from our beloved country so mugabe is right.This man is not a parrot,blue-print policy African in origin so anyone who lampast him is a real fool more than the word itself
why are they allowing a
why are they allowing a leader who has reduced an entire nation to beggars to attend a conference on food as if he has anything positive to contribute, they should amend that loophole and stop him from travelling to europe entirely.
mugabe must allow zimbabweans to survive.
president mugabe of zimbabwe is corupt and wicked minded person who only want to remained as president than to peacefully retain his dignity and respect as father and legend which the zimbabweans will never forget in history as his legacy by simply hand over power to the person that won the election.
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