Mugabe check up Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/mugabe-check-up/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Wed, 10 May 2017 07:05:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 https://citifmonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-CITI-973-FM-32x32.jpg Mugabe check up Archives - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always https://citifmonline.com/tag/mugabe-check-up/ 32 32 Zimbabwe’s Mugabe leaves for medical checks in Singapore https://citifmonline.com/2017/05/zimbabwes-mugabe-leaves-for-medical-checks-in-singapore/ Wed, 10 May 2017 07:05:43 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=317812 Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has left the country for medical checks in Singapore, the government said in a statement, about two months after his previous such trip to the south Asian nation. Aged 93, Mugabe is the only leader the southern African country has known since independence in 1980, and his health is a hot […]

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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has left the country for medical checks in Singapore, the government said in a statement, about two months after his previous such trip to the south Asian nation.

Aged 93, Mugabe is the only leader the southern African country has known since independence in 1980, and his health is a hot topic ahead of a presidential election scheduled for next year that he is due to contest.

He flew to Singapore late on Monday. The Ministry of Information said he was expected to return home at the weekend.

Mugabe now struggles to walk, with security aides forming a human shield around him in public, often making it difficult for reporters to film or take pictures of him.

Last week at a World Economic Forum Summit in South Africa, Mugabe sat slumped in his chair, wringing his hands, as he told a panel discussion in a low murmur that his country was not a “fragile state”.

Critics say his infirmities make him unfit to hold office but he continues to exercise tight control over his ZANU-PF party. In February he said the party and Zimbabwe’s people saw no viable alternative candidate to him for next year’s elections.

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Source: USANews

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