TAHER Elmegrahi, the former Libyan ambassador to Zimbabwe who was expelled from Harare last week for defecting from Muammar Gaddafi's regime to the rebel-led Transitional National Council (TNC), left the country last week in a huff via the Plumtree Border Post into Botswana.
Botswana, led by Ian Khama, does not enjoy good relations with President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, hence reports swirled last week that Gaborone had offered Elmegrahi and his team temporary sanctuary to allow them to sort out their temporary travel visas before transiting to an unknown destination via South Africa.
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