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Ailing Mugabes flies out to Singapore
17 Sep 2018 at 08:36hrs | Views
FORMER president Robert Mugabe and wife Grace reportedly flew out to Singapore Sunday on a flight chartered by the government.
Mugabe, 95, and his wife, 53, have reportedly been struggling with poor health, regularly travelling to the southeast Asian country for medical attention.
A 2015 operation to remove her appendix is said to have continued to cause Grace discomfort, necessitating trips abroad for treatment.
Her husband's health problems have not been made public although media reports have long speculated about prostate cancer.
Grace was in Singapore when her mother passed on nearly two weeks ago, resulting in President Emmerson Mnangagwa hiring a Gulfstream jet to bring her home for the funeral.
The health problems also forced the former first couple to miss Mnangagwa's inauguration, sending instead their daughter Bona and her husband to represent them.
Mugabe, 95, and his wife, 53, have reportedly been struggling with poor health, regularly travelling to the southeast Asian country for medical attention.
A 2015 operation to remove her appendix is said to have continued to cause Grace discomfort, necessitating trips abroad for treatment.
Grace was in Singapore when her mother passed on nearly two weeks ago, resulting in President Emmerson Mnangagwa hiring a Gulfstream jet to bring her home for the funeral.
The health problems also forced the former first couple to miss Mnangagwa's inauguration, sending instead their daughter Bona and her husband to represent them.
Source - newzimbabwe
