This was announced on his Twitter page by the current president of this African country Emmerson Mnangagwa.

“It's incredibly bitter to announce the death of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former president Robert Mugabe,” he wrote.

Mugabe led Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017.

On November 18, 2017, mass protests against the rule of Mugabe took place in the country. On November 21, 2017, Robert Mugabe resigned as president under pressure from the military and the leadership of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front ZANU-PF.