He died in the early hours of Friday at the age of 95.
Recall that Mugabe, the longest serving president of Zimbabwe, was forced
to resign in 2017 after a 37 year rule following protracted intra party crisis.
His successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed Mugabe’s death in a
tweet Friday, mourning him as an “icon of liberation.” He did not
provide details.
Mugabe was born in Zvimba, 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of the capital of
Harare. As a child, he tended his grandfather’s cattle and goats, fished for
bream in muddy water holes, played football and “boxed a lot,”.
