WHO shocks the world by appointing Zimbabwe’s Mugabe as goodwill ambassador

Wait, what? To the world’s utter shock and dismay, the World Health Organization has appointed Zimbabwe’s 93 year-old president Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. The move “provoked a fierce backlash from international human rights groups and a call from at least one politician to suspend the Geneva-based organization’s funding,” says the FT (paywall). Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years and “has been widely condemned for human rights abuses and for presiding over the collapse of the country’s economy.”