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| Comrade Bob cancels junket after Swiss deny visas |
| 2011-10-26 |
Zim-bob-wean President Bob MuggsyMugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... has been forced to cancel a trip to Geneva for a United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... meeting this week after his wife and some of his aides were denied visas, state media said on Wednesday. Western countries, including the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , imposed travel and financial sanctions on Mugabe and bigwigs of his ZANU-PF party almost a decade ago over charges of rights abuses and vote rigging. But the sanctions, which Mugabe argues are punishment for his seizure and redistribution of white-owned commercial farms to black Zim-bob-weans, have traditionally not been applied for U.N. meetings. On Wednesday, the official Herald newspaper said Mugabe, 87, had scrapped a trip to Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... for an International Telecommunications Union summit after his wife Grace, Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, chief front man George Charamba and three other bigwigs were refused travel permits. Private media in Zim-bob-we reported that Mugabe had planned to travel with a 62-member delegation. Harare had lodged a protest with both the Swiss government and the United Nations, the Herald said. |
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