Former President Robert Mugabe will likely miss Independence Day celebrations for the second time in a row after current President Emmerson Mnangagwa revealed that the former is in Singapore for treatment.
Mugabe, who was ousted from office in a military coup in November 2017, has been in the Far Eastern City-state since the beginning of April.
Mnangagwa revealed Mugabe’s whereabouts during an interview with ZBCtv on Saturday. He said:
He has not been feeling well. At the age of 95, I think he is reasonably in good health. Currently he is not in the country. He left on the 2nd of April to Singapore, he will be way for about 29 days and he will come back.
I am making sure that I do the facilitation for him to receive treatment, take him to Singapore and to bring him back, all the facilities, I make sure that it is done.
Mugabe has shunned the limelight since his humiliation in 2017. His last public appearance was on election day on July 30, 2018, where he implicitly declared that he would vote for MDC president Nelson Chamisa.
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