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Mugabe doesn’t sleep but just ‘rests his eyes’ at conference, says spokesperson

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ZIMBABWE. President Robert Mugabe is not asleep when he closes his eyes for long periods during meetings but is resting his eyes his spokesman says.

“The president cannot suffer bright lights”, George Charamba was quoted as saying by the state-run Herald newspaper.

The Zimbabwean president is currently receiving specialised medical treatment for his eyes in Singapore. Mugabe 93, intends to stand in presidential elections next year but is said to have been giving in to nature one too many a time at public functions, with cameras often catching him fast asleep.

But Charamba, in a rebuttal that would make George Orwell’s Squealor look like a PR amateur, is not about to have any of this. “I feel like a failure when there is this reading that the president is sleeping in conferences – no,” Charamba said.

He then compared Mugabe to the anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, whose eyes were sensitive to flash photography following years of working in a limestone quarry while imprisoned on Robben Island.

President Mugabe’s foreign trips are often criticised in Zimbabwe, where healthcare has declined in recent years and medical professionals say they are poorly paid.

Mugabe, who is seeking to stand for reelection next year, was subjected to global memes when he tripped and fell while walking down stairs after addressing his supporters in Zim capital, Harare, in 2015.

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