Robert Mugabe is not sleeping in meetings – as a series of images would suggest. In fact, his PR man has said, he is simply resting his eyes.
The state-run Herald newspaper on Thursday quoted spokesman George Charamba as saying the 93-year-old Zimbabwean president has a medical condition that means his eyes can’t handle bright lights.
He spoke after Mugabe left this week for medical treatment for his eyes in Singapore.
“I feel like a failure when there is this reading that the president is sleeping in conferences – no,” Charamba said.
The comments came after Mugabe was captured apparently dozing at a World Economic Forum meeting in South Africa this month.
It isn’t the first time he has been photographed mid-nap. It also happened during Ghana’s 60th anniversary of Independence parade in March.
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