FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2017 file photo, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe introduces his cabinet minister during his meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria, South Africa. Without lifting a finger of its own, the Trump administration may be witnessing the culmination of nearly two decades of U.S. efforts to prise Zimbabwe from the powerful grasp of its authoritarian President Mugabe. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe with an iron fist from 1980 to 2017, has died at the age of 95, the country’s president announced on Friday.
“It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former President… Robert Mugabe,” Emmerson Mnangagwa said in a tweet.
