Zimbabwe's former president, Robert Mugabe, is dead

Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who led his country from 1980 to 2017, died at the age of 95, the current head of state, Emmerson, announced on Friday. Mnangagwa. "It is with great sadness that I announce the death of Zimbabwe's founding father and former president, Major Robert Mugabe," he said in a tweet.

It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe's founding father and president, Cde Robert Mugabe (1/2)

Thirty years of reign

Robert Mugabe was the hero of national liberation in Zimbabwe before becoming one of the worst autocrats on the African continent. Accused of muzzling the opposition with violence during his 30-year reign, pointed out as responsible for the economic decline of his country, Robert Mugabe incarnated to excess the rejection of the former colonists and the West, " Whites "(" Whites ") who returned to each of his speeches.

Born in 1924 into a poor family of what was still Southern Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe had a rather lonely childhood, surrounded by his books. Became a teacher, he went to study in South Africa. It was here that he began Marxism with members of the ANC (African National Congress), the anti-apartheid party of Nelson Mandela.

Robert Mugabe took the reins of the former Rhodesia, became independent in 1980. Lacked by the army and his party, he was forced to resign in 2017. He left a country stuck in a deep economic crisis that is getting worse.

With AFP