File Photo - Robert Mugabe gestures while addressing a meeting of veterans of the country's independence war in the capital Harare, April 7, 2016. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo
HARARE (Reuters) - 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 on Tuesday.
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.
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