A visibly shaken and not well President Robert Mugabe who is attending the 6^th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Nairobi, has held bilateral talks with his Kenyan counterpart President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Mugabe obstinately flew out of a burning Zimbabwe, oblivious to the bedlam around him to attend the Nairobi conference.
While tempers flared in Harare and the situation threatened to explode into full-scale anarchy, for Mugabe it was business as usual.
Pro-democracy groups and opposition parties have in the past few months cranked up pressure against Mugabe’s increasingly authoritarian regime through protests.

Mugabe who was pictured sleeping on the first day of the crucial summit, had his spin doctors go into overdrive spreading these pictures as proof of good health and suitability to lead.

Despite a very tight schedule as head of state of the host country, President Kenyatta held bilateral talks with President Mugabe on the sidelines of the TICAD summit.
The closed door meeting lasted close to 40 minutes and Foreign Affairs Minister, Cde Simbarashe Mumbengegwi who attended the talks said the two leaders had a very warm and very friendly exchange of views over a very wide range of issues that cover regional, continental and global matters.
Cde Mumbengegwi said both leaders did appreciate the change of focus on the part of Japan that instead of simply looking at aid in the traditional terms, Japan is now looking at the whole question of industrialisation and value addition.
In terms of global issues, the two leaders discussed the United Nations reform and the leaders were very clear that Africa’s position remains firm as spelt out in the Ezwulini Consensus.
Cde Mumbengegwi said both leaders indicated their firm commitment to the common African position.
President Kenyatta also briefed President Mugabe on the threat caused by terrorists in Kenya and the East African region and the measures being taken to end the threat.
Political relations between Harare and Nairobi are very good but the two leaders agreed that more should be done to improve economic relations. zbc