President Robert Mugabe blasted off into the sky, his 23rd flight yesterday, in another expensive unnecessary this time to the United States of America which saw his wife, Grace join him, the latter who has bunked Mugabe trips to African countries saying she is too ill to travel.
But yesterday Mrs Mugabe’s cancer temporarily left her as she joined her husband headed to the US to speak at a United Nations conference that can be attended by Mugabe’s large ambassadorial staff stationed in that country who can easily read out his speech.
Besides numerous diplomats there in the United States, the president has two idle ambassadors one at the US government outpost and another to the United Nations.
Despite the large human resource in that country Mugabe left for New York, for the purely chat based conference which merely discusses the Ebola crisis.
Zimbabwe has had no problems whatsoever with the ebola disease.
He was accompanied by a group of hangers on, his wife, Grace Mugabe, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba and a untold number of government officials.
The state Media reported attempting to justify the trip saying: the Ebola haemorrhagic fever has devastated three West African countries since its outbreak left more than 11 000 people dead and affected more than 27 000 others.
UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon is hosting the International Ebola Recovery Conference as part of efforts to ensure the affected countries receive resources and the necessary support that they require to overcome the Ebola outbreak.
Heads of state from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the three countries most affected by Ebola, have been invited to the conference and President Mugabe has been invited as leader of the African continent.
Affected countries will share their national as well as regional recovery plans and budgets for the next two years.
Officials from the AU, the African Development Bank (ADB), the European Union and the World Bank, among others, are expected to attend the conference.
The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history and affected a number of countries in West Africa.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as of the end of June this year, 27 551 cases and 11 236 deaths had been recorded with the majority in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
874 health care workers in the three most affected countries were infected with the Ebola virus and 509 of them died.
After months battling with the disease, WHO declared Liberia Ebola free on the 9th of May 2015 after 42 days with no new reported cases.
The situation in Guinea and Sierra Leone is also improving with most new cases emanating from registered contacts.
The projection is that by August 2015, the two countries will also be declared Ebola free.
While the number of Ebola cases have started to go down, the three countries are still in need of financial and technical resources to support and totally eradicate the disease.
The AU has been spearheading continental efforts to respond to the epidemic under the Africa Against Ebola Solidarity Trust, as well as the AU Support to Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, and the support from international partners will complement the AU efforts.
Governments in the affected countries, the African region and the international community are coming together to stop the outbreak and the conference convened by the UN is thus expected to further strengthen the recovery and reconstruction of the affected countries in particular and the West African region in general.
On his departure, President Mugabe was seen off at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, cabinet ministers, service chiefs and several government officials.
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I was at a certain function and one pastor said zimbabwe has the most educated fools and this can be seen by its collapsed industry, the number of vendors in town, an educated nation driving on potholes, educated fools.
African countries are renowned for wasting the nation’s resources on corruption and luxuries for the ruling elite and yet failing to provide even the most basic needs to the people such decent housing and clean running water. It is the squalor living conditions that have make these places hot beds for health problems like cholera and Ebola and, when there is an outbreak, have made outbreak very difficult to contain.
How ironic that African leaders like President Mugabe and his wife should be using
the excuse of attending the Ebola conference to go on yet another shopping trip at great national expense; the very thing that has exasperated the health problems like Ebola!
I have photographers in Bloomingdales and fifth avenue and will be updating you on the first family’s shopping spree!
Do not worry the old man is just on a world tour!!! Its on his bucket list
They have obviously found a loophole, of dodging targeted sanctions, by using the UN route, to enter prohibited countries. That way they can plunder the nation’s resources with impunity. This gap needs close examination and necessary action, should be followed to close it .
VANHUWEE ASI CHII NHAI MAZIMBA…KO TSVANGIRAI ADIIKO…. CHIMWE CHI CIO CHINONYANGADZA MHANI…….NJERE SHOMA ZVADZINOITA….THINK MHANI ……..AND YOU SAY ZIMBABWEANS ARE THE MOST EDUCATED IN AFRICA NE THIS KIND OF TALK HA HA
The silly hobby of counting how many times Gushaz flies??!!…MUCHASVOTWA MUKAZVIREGA!!
Thats correct, fighting the enemy within his grounds, asi deno ariTsvangirai aenda muchitudza zvimwe apa, tibvirei.
He has always wanted to enter the USA, what better opportunity than use the excuse of ebola. The lady donkey grace wanted to do shopping. Which better place to do shopping than NY city. Down with Americans, but he wants to be an American. If it was easy to get citizenship status, he and grace would have long applied for one. This monkey is a silly bastard who plays around with people’s emotions.