Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has been receiving medical
treatment in Singapore for the last two months and is no longer able to walk,
President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.
He did not say what treatment Mugabe had been undergoing. Mnangagwa said
“We have just received a message that he is better now and will return on Nov.
30. He can no longer walk but we will continue taking care of him,” referring to Mugabe by his totem name Gushungo.
During his later years in power, Mugabe made several medical trips to
Singapore.
Officials often said he was being treated for a cataract, denying frequent
reports by private local media that he had prostate cancer.
Mnangagwa, who won a disputed July 30 presidential vote, repeated the army’s
previous justification for last year’s coup, saying his former mentor Mugabe had
been surrounded by criminals.
When the army rolled its tanks into Harare, military leaders said they were
targeting “criminals around the president.” A bitter Mugabe said later, however,
that the army’s action had forced him to resign.
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