Mugabe cuts lone figure at summit

President Robert Mugabe will attend a cultural festival in India that has been snubbed by the host country's president and several international leaders, including the Zanu-PF leader's African peers.

Mugabe left Harare on Monday to attend the three-day World Culture Festival to be held in New Delhi starting on Friday.

Curiously, Zimbabwe's Rural Development, Preservation and Promotion of Culture and Heritage minister, Abednigo Ncube, was left out of Mugabe's entourage, which included Foreign Affairs minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and several other top government officials.