Robert Mugabe is sworn in for his seventh term as Zimbabwe's President in August 2013. He resigned in November 2017 after nearly four decades in power.
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In pictures: The life and career of Robert Mugabe
Updated 12:59 PM ET, Mon September 9, 2019
Robert Mugabe is sworn in for his seventh term as Zimbabwe's President in August 2013. He resigned in November 2017 after nearly four decades in power.
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Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has died at the age of 95, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Friday.
Mugabe became the first prime minister of newly independent Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, in 1980. He held office for over three decades before being deposed in a coup in 2017.