Heksenteksten

Weblog van juni 2002 tot september 2006. Gestart in Belgiƫ, voortgeblogd in Zuid-Afrika en het laatste jaar vanuit de VS.

zondag, januari 25, 2004

Robert Mugabe was airlifted to South Africa for emergency medical treatment yesterday after collapsing at his state residence in Harare, a member of his security staff said last night.
The 79-year-old dictator was flown by military aircraft to Johannesburg after a violent vomiting fit. He was accompanied on the flight by his wife Grace, personal doctors and a string of aides.
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Mr Mugabe is taken outside Zimbabwe for treatment to reduce the threat of news of his illness leaking out and prompting popular unrest. Reports of a similar collapse late in October, when he was said to have suffered uncontrollable vomiting, prompted uproar.
(Bron: Telegraph News)