Count Dracula and the WHO

Appointing Robert Mugabe as goodwill ambassador for health is like making Count Dracula special envoy for the blood donor service.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, pictured speaking at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 21 in New York, has been in power since 1980.UN photograph by Cia Pak

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 25, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—It was a bit like appointing Count Dracula as the goodwill ambassador for the blood donor service. Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be plausible. Reality is under no such constraint, and regularly produces events that would never be credible in a novel. Like the...

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