Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been admitted in a Singapore hospital since April but is in a stable condition, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday.
Mnangagwa said in a statement on Monday night that his predecessor has been in hospital for nearly four months but was “remarkably stable”.
“I am greatly pleased to inform the nation the former president continues to make steady progress towards eventual recovery, and that his condition is remarkably stable for his age,” read the statement without disclosing any details of the nature of Mugabe’s hospitalization.
He said he had sent a delegation led by the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, to check on Mugabe in Singapore. The delegation included Mugabe’s former personal physician, Jonathan Matenga.
“From the report the team gave me at the weekend, I am greatly pleased to inform the nation that the former president continues to make steady progress towards eventual recovery and that his condition,” Mnangagwa said.
He said the former Zimbabwean strongman “could be released fairly soon.”
“Once that happens, government stands ready with appropriate and adequate arrangements for both his return and continued care and treatment here at home respectively, until he recovers fully.”
Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe from 1980 until he was ousted in November 2017 by the military, which installed Mnangagwa, who served as the country’s vice president until Mugabe fired him that month over allegations of disloyalty and plotting to overthrow him.
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