PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is in New York for this week’s 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
He is accompanied by cabinet ministers, senior government officials, wife Grace and youngest son Chatunga who could be was seen smiling on arrival at JFK International Airport in New York on Sunday.
Mugabe’s children take advantage of his UN-related trips to travel to the West after the veteran Zimbabwean leader was hit with sanction over allegations of human rights abuses and electoral fraud.
Although he is banned from travelling to the West, Mugabe can still attend meetings of the UN in these countries.
His wife Grace has previously complained that Chatunga’s basketball-playing brother, Robert Junio,r saw his dreams of playing in the US come to grief because of the sanctions.