Ex-Zimbabwe president and wife expected to drop by Malaysia

Safe from action: Mugabe and Grace are going to Singapore. Mugabe was granted immunity under his resignation deal. — Reuters

HARARE: Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe has left the country for medical checks in Singapore, his first foreign travel since the army forced him from office last month, a state security official said.

The 93-year-old, who ruled the southern African nation for 37 years, resigned after the army and his ruling ZANU-PF party turned against him when it became clear that his 52-year-old wife, Grace, was being groomed as his successor.