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| Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe. PHOTO | BBC |
Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is dead. He died in Singapore where he was admitted at Royal Attan, hospital.
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, has died aged 95.
He was born on 21 February 1924, in what was then South Rhodesia.
He was imprisoned for more than a decade without trial after criticizing the government of Rhodesia in 1964.
He was taken down by a coupe organized by his former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Late Robert Mugabe is known as the founding father of Zimbabwe.