Say hello to the new goodwill ambassador
The World Health Organization has made Mugabe a “goodwill ambassador” to help deal with non-communicable diseases.
The appointment of 93-year-old Robert Mugabe will cause astonishment among many WHO member states and donors.
A goodwill ambassador may be a largely symbolic role, but the symbolism of giving it to a man whose leadership of Zimbabwe has, critics say, coincided with a collapse of its health service, and major human rights abuses, will be very unpopular.
Or to put it more bluntly than the BBC does, Mugabe is a notorious tyrant and human rights abuser, so making him any kind of “good will ambassador” for the WHO is insulting to nearly everyone on the planet.
Would someone with more knowledge of the world than I do please explain why on earth WHO would do this?
Dracula is now in charge of the Blood Bank.
Just when I thought 2017 couldn’t get any more bizarre…
@cazz #1
I think the questions that need answering are, “How much and to whom?”
Wtf?
Well, it kinda fits since Mugabe himself is such a disease and completely non-communicable.