ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has left for Libya, where he is attending festivities marking the 32nd anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the Libyan monarchy. Mugabe left for Libya from Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, where he opened a new mint ahead of the city’s mayoral race on September 8-9. While opening the mint, Mugabe vowed to press ahead with his controversial land reforms and to investigate companies that close “for no apparent reason,” the report said. Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi is one of Mugabe’s dwindling number of friends internationally. Kadhafi paid an official visit to Zimbabwe last month, after the summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) — set to become the African Union (AU) — in neighbouring Zambia. Zimbabwe is also in a $360-million fuel deal with Libya, aimed at alleviating chronic fuel shortages which have crippled Zimbabwe. The two nations were also to ink a beef deal, in which Zimbabwe would export beef to Libya, but that agreement has been put on hold following an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth cattle disease – AFP