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(NEWZIMBABWE) Mugabe, Tsvangirai attend Malawi wedding

Mugabe, Tsvangirai attend Malawi wedding
by AFP
16/04/2010 00:00:00

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will attend the wedding of Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika to an ex-tourism minister on Saturday, an official said Friday.

Edward Sawerengera, the director general of Malawi’s state residences, said Mugabe and Tsvangirai will be among several African leaders at the highly-publicised wedding.

Mozambique, Rwanda and Swaziland will send their prime ministers, while Tanzanian vice president Ali Mohammed will represent his country, he said.

Mutharika, 76, is marrying Callista Chimombo, 50, after his Zimbabwean first wife Ethel died of cancer two years ago.

The wedding will blessed by the head of the Catholic church in Malawi, Archbishop Tarcizio Ziyaye, at the 15,000-seater sports stadium in the administrative capital Lilongwe.

Some 5,000 guests will be treated to a banquet at the State House, said the official.

Chimombo was a senior member of Mutharika's governing Democratic Progressive Party and is a former legislator. She was appointed as tourism minister in the first cabinet of the president in 2004.

Mutharika, who is current chair of the African Union (AU), is serving his last term as president of the poor southern African nation. He is the country's second leader since multi-party democracy in 1994. - AFP

Labels: BINGU WA MUTHARIKA, MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, MUGABE, WEDDINGS

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