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SINGAPORE – Robert Mugabe who ruled the landlocked southern African nation of Zimbabwe for 37 years as prime minister and later president, has died at the age of 95.

Mugabe in recent years has been a frequent visitor to Singapore for medical treatment for a number of ailments he had been suffering.

It was there that he died on Friday.

“It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former President, Cde Robert Mugabe,” Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa tweeted on Friday.

Born on 21 February 1924, Mugabe, a former revolutionary, became prime minister in 1980, a role he was to serve in for seven years. He then served as the country’s president for the next thirty years, from 1987 to 2017 when he was deposed by the military in a coup.

‘Having dominated Zimbabwe’s politics for nearly four decades, Mugabe was a controversial figure. He has been praised as a revolutionary hero of the African liberation struggle who helped to free Zimbabwe from British colonialism, imperialism, and white minority rule. Conversely, in governance he has been accused of being a dictator responsible for economic mismanagement, widespread corruption, anti-white racism, human rights abuses, and crimes against humanity,’ according to Wikipedia.

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