Former Zimbabwean leader Robert
Mugabe has been receiving medical treatment in Singapore for the last two
months and is no longer able to walk, according to President Emmerson
Mnangagwa.
Mugabe, 94, who ruled the country
for nearly four decades since independence from Britain in 1980, was forced to
resign in November 2017 after an army coup.
Mnangagwa told ruling ZANU-PF
supporters that his predecessor had been due to return on October 15 but his
poor health delayed the journey.
He did not say what treatment
Mugabe had been undergoing.
“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,” Mnangagwa said, 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.
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