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Zimbabwe returns Tsvangirai's travel documents

HARARE
Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:23am EDT

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean authorities have returned opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's travel documents on Thursday which will enable him to travel to South Africa for a key regional summit, a party spokesman said.

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"The passport situation has just been resolved. They have their passports now. They will be leaving (for South Africa) on the 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) flight. There was no explanation," MDC official and media adviser Andrew Chadwick told Reuters.

Authorities earlier confiscated Tsvangirai's emergency travel documents and passports of MDC officials, preventing them for boarding a plane to Johannesburg.



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