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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe flew into Rome on Monday, to attend Pope Francis's inauguration -- sidestepping a travel ban that applies to the EU but not to the sovereign Vatican City state.
A practicing Catholic, the 89-year-old Mugabe visited the Vatican previously in 2011 for the beatification of late pope John Paul the 2nd.
Pope Francis's inauguration mass in St Peter's Square will take place tomorrow, with hundreds of thousands of faithful and world leaders expected.
Mugabe has been widely condemned for human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
