So Robert Mugabe has been appointed

as a "goodwill" Ambassador by the World Health Organisation?
I can imagine few people less suitable. 
Some  years ago now people I had worked with had to flee Zimbabwe  because they were  in breach of the "association" laws. They were attempting to run a school for children with disabilities and because there were more than a certain number of staff it was held that they were "meeting to plot the overthrow"....I will leave you to imagine the rest.
I have met many "refugees" from Zimbabwe - and none of them were the "rich white farmers" that Mugabe had removed. There have been some white farmers and their families but they were far from "rich" and they had done a lot to improve the economy of the country through sheer hard work. There have been many more black residents who simply don't belong to Mugabe's tribal grouping.
The horror stories they have told me can't be written here. They would have been too graphic for the media to portray. The hospitals in Zimbabwe are in an appalling state. They lack the most basic things. In one place even the beds were removed - so they could be used by the poorest people loyal to Mugabe. When some of them were eventually returned they had to be repaired. I only know about this because someone else risked his life showing a local man how to do it.  
     "Hospitals are places you go to die" I was told by a six year old black Zimbabwean refugee. He couldn't understand that, in our country, the purpose of a hospital is to try and prevent just that. Medication for things like high blood pressure and diabetes are in short supply - if they are available at all. Most people can't afford them. They can't afford to see a doctor - even if they can find one. Mugabe's much lauded health care system simply doesn't exist for most people - if it exists at all. 
Mugabe is a despot who has betrayed his people and his country. He is not fit to have power over anyone - let alone an entire country.
So what is the WHO doing? The United Nations has a way of appointing completely unsuitable people to positions  like this. It isn't the warm, friendly, peace-loving organisation it is still all too often portrayed as being.  It is a highly political organisation which is riddled with corruption. One very senior member of the UN staff in New York once told me, "It's better to be in than out but if you are in then you have to watch your back all the time."
If he was still alive I suspect he would tell me that Mugabe still has some equally not to be trusted "friends" in high places and that his mate  Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu is merely returning a favour.
And if my long dead history teacher, the one who told us to close our books that day so that he could tell us what was going to happen in what was then Rhodesia, was still alive he would look at me and say, "I told you Zimbabwe would descend into chaos and that man was not fit to lead his country."
How can Mugabe be an Ambassador for anything?