“Mugabe, who arrived after midday to a rapturous welcome by
hundreds of party supporters and the entire Zanu PF leadership, was walking
down the stairs off the podium to greet service chiefs and other government
ministers when he missed a step and fell to the ground.
He had just returned from Ethiopia where he took over the
rotating chairmanship of the African Union.Mugabe took over the post of African
Union chairman on Friday, replacing Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel
Aziz.
Mugabe appeared to miss a step and toppled when he left the
raised lectern at the airport Wednesday afternoon, according to several
witnesses, who insisted on anonymity because of security concerns.
He celebrates his 91st birthday on February 21. Mugabe takes
annual vacations every January to Asia, including Singapore where he has
visited specialists for checkups on his eyes, according to Zimbabwean
officials. The Zimbabwean leader has repeatedly insisted that he is “fit as two
fiddles.” Culled
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