{"id":398978,"date":"2018-02-06T10:57:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T10:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=398978"},"modified":"2018-02-06T10:57:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T10:57:44","slug":"zimbabwes-opposition-leader-morgan-tsvangirai-critically-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/zimbabwes-opposition-leader-morgan-tsvangirai-critically-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai ‘critically ill’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is critically ill in a South African hospital, reports say.<\/p>\n
Local media quoted family sources as saying the 65-year-old former prime minister – who is being treated for colon cancer – is suffering from weight loss, exhaustion and muscle thinning.<\/p>\n
During his political struggle against ex-President Robert Mugabe, he has been beaten and imprisoned numerous times.<\/p>\n
Mr Tsvangirai heads Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party.<\/p>\n
What is known about Tsvangirai’s condition?<\/strong><\/p>\n He has been in and out of hospital since June, receiving treatment in a Johannesburg hospital for cancer. He returned to the hospital early last month.<\/p>\n Mr Tsvangirai’s health deteriorated rapidly on Monday, family sources told Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo24 news website on Tuesday.<\/p>\n He had lost appetite and had difficulty eating or swallowing fluids, the sources said. Mr Tsvangirai also reportedly had breathing problems.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, an MDC party source was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that Mr Tsvangirai “is critically ill and we should brace for the worst”.<\/p>\n Mr Tsvangirai’s spokesman, Luke Tamborinyoka, said the MDC leader was “stable but the nation should keep on praying”.<\/p>\n The hospital where Mr Tsvangirai is being treated has so far made no public comments on the issue.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is critically ill in a South African hospital, reports say. Local media quoted family sources as saying the 65-year-old former prime minister – who is being treated for colon cancer – is suffering from weight loss, exhaustion and muscle thinning. During his political struggle against ex-President Robert Mugabe, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":398979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[16868,563],"yoast_head":"\n