Image copyright AFP Image caption If Robert Mugabe goes before the committee, it would be his first public appearance since his resignation

Zimbabwe's parliament has summoned former President Robert Mugabe to give evidence about a claim he made about huge-scale diamond theft. Themba Mliswa, who heads parliament's mining committee, told Zimbabwe's state-run Herald paper that the panel had interviewed former Marange mining executives as well as the police, army and intelligence services. “We met today (Thursday) as a committee and resolved that we invite the former president Mr Mugabe to our committee to explain the disappearance of $15 billion worth of diamonds,” said Mliswa, an independent MP.
The Parliament of Zimbabwe summons ex-President Robert Mugabe over an alleged theft of diamonds.