Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe smiles during a youth rally in Marondera about 100 kilometres east of Harare, Friday, June, 2, 2017.The rally was held as part of his 2017 Presidential election campaign bid where the youth declared Mugabe as the sole candidate and life President of the Southern African nation.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe is no more.
Mugabe breathed his last in a Singapore hospital where he has been since April.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa made the announcement on Twitter.
“It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former President, Cde Robert Mugabe,” a post on Mnangagwa’s official presidential Twitter account said.
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.
