Zimbabwean President Starts Five-Country European Tour

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has arrived in Russia to kick start his five-nation European tour as protests against his government rock Harare and Bulawayo. New Zimbabwe reports that exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo criticised the Zimbabwean leader for hiring a luxury jet while unrest flares back home.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa stands at attention as Zimbabwe's national anthem is played by a Guard of Honour mounted for him by the Russian military in Moscow. With Mnangagwa is Russia's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (the Middle East and Africa) Bogdanov Mikhail Leonidovich.

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