Robert Mugabe in Singapore for first trip since being forced from power in Zimbabwe
Mugabe has a reputation for extensive international travel, including regular medical trips to Singapore – a source of public anger among his impoverished citizens
Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe, 93, who was ousted from power last month, has flown to Singapore for a medical check-up, his ex-spokesman said on Thursday.
Mugabe and his wife Grace have not been seen in public since he was forced to resign after a military takeover brought a sudden end to his authoritarian 37-year reign.
“He is in Singapore. It’s part of his package as a retired president to travel overseas. He routinely goes to Singapore to meet with his doctors,” George Charamba said.
Charamba, who is now President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman, said that the new government was keen to show respect to Mugabe.
“There is no quest to humiliate or ostracise him,” he said.
“The idea was to extricate him from the clutches of the cabal which had captured him. That has been done so that his legacy comes out shining.”