Robert Gabriel Mugabe, the
immediate former president of Zimbabwe is dead.
The reformer turned dictator and long-serving president of Zimbabwe passed on this morning, according ZimLive news outlet.
Mugabe had been battling ill-health and President Emmerson Mnangagwa told a Cabinet meeting two weeks ago that doctors had discontinued treatment.
Mugabe, ousted from power in a military coup in November 2017, was being treated in Singapore since April.
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