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Ailing Mugabe now unable to walk, says Zimbabwe president

Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses media on July 29, 2018 during a surprise press conference at his residence "Blue Roof " in Harare, on the eve of the country's first election since he was ousted from office last year. PHOTO | JEKESAI NJIKIZANA | AFP

By  AFP

Zimbabwe's ex-leader Robert Mugabe is in Singapore for medical care and now unable to walk because of ill health and old age, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday.

President Mnangagwa told his Zanu-PF party supporters at a rally that the 94-year-old Mugabe had been receiving medical care in Singapore for the past two months.

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