 | South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, does it matter? |
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai was deported from Zambia early yesterday together with eight other officials of his party for having violating immigration laws. A spokesperson for Zambia's Immigration Department said Tsvangirai and his colleagues from the crisis-hit Movement for Democratic Change were accosted by officials while in a meeting with an unnamed Kenyan at a resort. No charges were laid against them and the Kenyan was still being held in custody awaiting deportation, the official said.
The group had been at the Zambezi Sun Hotel in Livingstone when hotel staff tipped off immigration officials about the meeting. Zambian officials did not say what the meeting that Tsvangirai, who entered Zambia on a tourist visa on Monday, was about. |