JUST IN: Robert Mugabe Is Dead

Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Gabriel Mugabe has died at the age of 95, Nigerian Cable News online has learnt.

Mugabe died in a Singapore hospital on Friday morning.

He led Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017 before he was ousted from power in November 2017.

Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa says he “was an icon of liberation” who “dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people”