W H O Goes Bonkers......

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-41702662

[mikey4444]

TTT........100% agree.

When I first saw this early this morning, I had to check that date, just in case I had overslept and it really was April 1st.

Complete madness !

[aelmpvw]

reminds of the 1939 letter nominating adolf hitler for the nobel peace prize

[ToraToraTora]

well Saint Tony was nominated wasn't he?

[Gromit]

WHO are bonkers amid UK taxpayers giving Mugabe $73million aid.

[ToraToraTora]

yes I agree gromit but normally when I say we should stop all foreign aid you pebble dash your screen with organic tibetan peace porridge!

[Jackdaw33]

Mugabe single-handedly turned Rhodesia (under Ian Smith) from the bread basket of Africa into the dustbin of Africa.

[Togo]

You couldn't make it up. ebaguM.

[Spicerack]

Figures. They (the UN) put a saudi in charge of the Human Rights Council.
Mugabe and his cronies have to go abroad to get decent health care.

[albaqwerty]

bonkers is under-statement.
Sheer utter madness is also an under-statement.

What on earth were they thinking?

[Patsy33]

He's obviously got certain people/ countries over a barrel!. IMHO

[douglas9401]

I'd like to add 'hopefully it's a short term position and he dies in office' to 'Surprising and disappointing'.

I wonder how this will be blamed on colonial powers or the empire.

[jourdain2]

Brown envelopes come into it, I think.

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah
Teodor Gabriel-Jesu ( ethiopian christian) was 'elected' to end the politicization of WHO
so the first thing he does is name as health ambassador is someone who has completely screwed his own country's health care. - I looked - Mugabe doesnt get paid for this


the last one was political apparently
but she shook things up over Zika
and pointed out forcefully that a lot of the regulation of drugs wasnt in the interests of the patients ( time involved to get a vaccine cleared and in production )

and someone pointing out that medical regulation (shipman and all that sort of stuff) was not in the patients interests but WAS in the paper pushers interests
was like
Trump saying the Paris accords are really a good thing and emissions are leading climate change
( yeah I know Trump hasnt - I was doing the shock horror bit)

[hereIam]

Agree with you TTT.

[Old_Geezer]

Read about it this morning. They've just embarrassed themselves. Difficult to take them seriously at the moment.

[Playbill]

In a shopping mall carpark here in South Africa a few months ago, we saw a gleaming new Rolls Royce.
It had an unusual, short, personalised number plate. Looking closer we saw it was from Zimbabwe.
Perhaps someone had driven down to pick up some medicines from the local pharmacy.

[mikey4444]

"WHO chief 'rethinking' Robert Mugabe's appointment"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-41711571

[Zacs-Master]

Pete Townsend was my favourite.

[ToraToraTora]

mikey, to do a re think you first have to have done a think!

[mikey4444]

TTT...Yes, I agree. The WHO have handled this whole affair appallingly, and I would like to know the reason why they made this daft decision in the first place.