Only five ministers show up at Mugabe

Only five ministers and the highest official of the Ministry of Justice showed up at the Cabinet meeting that President Mugabe of Zimbabwe had written.

The low turnout on Tuesday means that seventeen other members of the government pass the meeting of the 93-year-old leader. The seventeen are occupied with the deposition procedure that is put into operation by the parliament against the president.

The Cabinet meeting was the first to invest Mugabe after the military imposed house arrest on him last Wednesday.