Zimbabwe’s vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is seen as favourite to succeed President Robert Mugabe, has been flown to South Africa for emergency medical care, officials said Monday.
Mnangagwa, 74, fell ill at a rally where Mugabe spoke on Saturday in the southern town of Gwanda, and suffered severe suspected food poisoning.
“Some of his doctors are in South Africa,” health minister David Parirenyatwa told reporters in the capital Harare.“He is well.
He is much better, he is almost jovial. Hewas vomiting with diarrhoea and he became dehydrated.
He has done a battery of tests.”With Mugabe, 93, in increasingly frail health, speculation over his successor has focused on Mnangagwa, a veteran regime loyalist.
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