Zimbabwe: Mugabe Accepts WHO Humiliation

22 October 2017

President Robert Mugabe has accepted the decision by the World Health Organisation to unceremoniously strip him of the honour of being the UN agency's goodwill ambassador for non-communicable diseases, Foreign Affairs Minister Mzembi said Sunday.

Barely four days after announcing Mugabe as WHO's political figurehead for NCDs, director of the UN agency general Tedros Ghabreyesus was forced into an embarrassing climb-down amid global protests ranging from Zimbabwe, Britain, the US and Canada.

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