Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has died at the age of 95.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on his official Twitter account “It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former President, Robert Mugabe.”
A reliable source told Reuters that Mugabe died in Singapore, where he frequently received medical treatment in recent years.
In November, Mnangagwa said Mugabe was no longer able to walk when he had been admitted to a hospital in Singapore, without saying what treatment Mugabe had been undergoing.
Mugabe, who ruled the southern African nation for nearly four decades since independence from Britain in 1980, was forced to resign in November 2017 after a military coup.
However, he was honoured as an African liberation hero and champion of racial reconciliation when he first came to power in a nation divided by nearly a century of white colonial rule