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| The Bloody Black Hitler of Africa |
His death nearly two years after he was toppled from power was announced this morning by current President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Reports in Zimbabwe say he died in hospital with his wife at his side. Mugabe had been in frail health, admitted to hospital in early April, apparently unable to walk and pictured looking extremely frail in photos alongside his son which may be the last ever taken of him.
Mnangagwa hailed Mugabe as an 'icon of liberation and said his 'contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten'. Mugabe came to power in 1980 as the founding leader of Zimbabwe after the country became fully independent from British rule. But his own rule was marked by murder, bloodshed, torture, persecution of political opponents, intimidation and vote-rigging on a grand scale and there was jubilation in the streets of Zimbabwe when he was toppled in 2017.
And under Mugabe's leadership the economy of a mineral-rich country descended into chaos with thousands of people reduced to grinding poverty, many of them suffering from near-starvation and worse.Read it all here............

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