Robert Mugabe....

[WetTheMogwai]

Has been appointed 'UN leader for tourism'

This can't be right surely?!

Sorry there's no link, I've just seen it on the guardian website and I'm trying to link it

guardian link

According to the linked article, the UN denies it has: he is simoky on the list to receive the "open invitation" letter that was sent to any head of a UN member state.

All the rest is quoting spin from Zimbabwe's (state owned) Herald newspaper, who are obviously bigging it up; and it seems comments are in reaction to the spun version, not the actual UN action.

Co-hosting UNTWO's AGM in 2013 seems plain wrong, though.

Despite that flaw, it's a welcome article to me. It is all to easy to forget the suffering in places that are not immediately in the headlines.