Former Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe finally dead, aged 95
Final years in power were characterised by financial collapse, surges of violent intimidation and a vicious internal power struggle
Robert Mugabe, a hero of Africa’s independence struggle whose long rule in Zimbabwe descended into tyranny, corruption and incompetence, has died at the age of 95, president Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.
The passing of the former president, who ruled Zimbabwe for close to four decades before being ousted in a military takeover in November 2017, marks the definitive end of an era in the history of the former British colony.