Foreign affairs secretary Joey Bimha told AFP that Zimbabwe would be represented by Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo on the sidelines of the two-day heads of state meeting in London starting on Thursday. Mugabe angrily pulled Zimbabwe out of the Commonwealth bloc in 2003 after its membership was suspended over violent and graft-ridden elections the previous year. By AFPMore by this AuthorZimbabwe's foreign minister will attend the Commonwealth summit this week in London, an official in Harare said Monday, underlining the country's international re-engagement since president Robert Mugabe's fall. Mugabe angrily pulled Zimbabwe out of the Commonwealth bloc in 2003 after its membership was suspended over violent and graft-ridden elections the previous year. While in power, Mugabe regularly said "to hell with the Commonwealth" and launched bitter verbal assaults against Britain, Zimbabwe's former colonial ruler.

Source: Daily Nation April 17, 2018 04:52 UTC