ZIMBABWE: Mugabe on medical leave in Singapore

Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has flown to Singapore for a “routine medical check-up”, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports. Mr Mugabe is expected back home in time for Saturday’s funeral of former chief justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, the Herald reports. Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa is performing his duties in his absence.  Despite Mr Mugabe’s advancing age, the […]

Zimbabwe’s 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has flown to Singapore for a “routine medical check-up”, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports. Mr Mugabe is expected back home in time for Saturday’s funeral of former chief justice Godfrey Chidyausiku, the Herald reports.

Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa is performing his duties in his absence. 

Despite Mr Mugabe’s advancing age, the ruling Zanu-PF party has endorsed him as its candidate in next year’s presidential election.

At a rally in February, his wife, Grace Mugabe, said: “One day when God decides that Mugabe dies, we will have his corpse appear as a candidate on the ballot paper.”