Tag: Robert Mugabe

Mugabe, Zimbabwe hero-turned-despot, dies aged 95

Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until the military forced him out, has died aged 95, the country’s president announced Friday. First heralded as a liberator who rid the former British colony Rhodesia of white minority rule, Mugabe used repression […]

Zimbabwe ex-president Mugabe dies aged 95

Harare, Sept 6: Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe with an iron fist from 1980 to 2017, has died aged 95, the country’s president announced Friday. “It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former President… Robert Mugabe,” Emmerson Mnangagwa said […]

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