Robert Mugabe 'spends £2m per month on travel abroad with his huge entourage'

Tyrant Robert Mugabe spends £2million per month on luxurious foreign travel, according to a Zimbabwean newspaper.

The president splashes cash on first-class jaunts around Africa and Asia, often with an entourage of more than 70, while his country remains desperately poverty-stricken.

The Daily News, one of the few independent newspapers in Zimbabwe, claimed official papers revealed the despotic leader spent £12million on travel in the first six months of this year.

That means that Mugabe has already considerably overspent his entire annual budget for transport, at a time when millions of Zimbabweans face poverty.

The publication reported: 'President Robert Mugabe is the biggest spender in government as revelations emerge that he overshot his annual foreign travel budget by a massive 133 percent in just six months. More...

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