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.
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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.