BREAKING: Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe Ex-President, Dies Aged 95

 

Robert Mugabe
Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, has died aged 95, after battling ill health.

Mr Mugabe had been in hospital in Singapore since April.

His successor, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, expressed his “utmost sadness”, calling Mr Mugabe “Zimbabwe’s founding father” and “an icon of liberation”.