Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe unable to walk :: Kenya

Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has been under medical treatment in Singapore for two months and can no longer walk, but is expected to return home next week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said Saturday.

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Mugabe, 94, who has led the nation of southern Africa for nearly four decades since the independence of Britain in 1980, was forced to resign in November 2017 after a coup d'etat. Military state.

Mnangagwa told ZANU-PF supporters in a rally in Murombedzi, Mugabe village about 100 km west of the capital Harare. His predecessor was due back on October 15, but his poor health delayed the trip.

He did not say what treatment Mugabe had undergone.

"We have just received a message telling him that he is getting better now and that he will come back on November 30th. He can not walk anymore but we will continue to take care of him, "said Mnangagwa, referring to Mugabe as Gushungo.

During his last years in office, Mugabe made several medical trips to Singapore.

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Officials often claimed that he was being treated for a cataract, denying many information by local private media that he would have prostate cancer.

Mnangagwa, who won the controversial presidential election on July 30, repeated the justification the army gave to the coup last year, saying his former mentor, Mugabe, was surrounded by of criminals.

When the army deployed its tanks in Harare, the military leaders declared that they were targeting "criminals close to the president". A bitter Mugabe, however, later said that the action of the army forced him to resign.

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