The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has travelled to Singapore for medical checks, days after celebrating his 93rd birthday.  

According to Ceoafrica, the president has become increasingly frail, and now struggles to walk during public appearances with his spokesman’s statement that the check-up is routine and that Mugabe is expected in Harare "early next week".

It comes a day after state-employed nurses in Zimbabwe began an indefinite strike over wages.

Last week, army doctors were brought in to manage a potential health crisis as a result of an on-going doctors’ strike; whose facilitators are some of the worst paid in the region with salaries often paid late.