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Zimbabwe bids its founder Mugabe farewell
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s founder Robert Mugabe was honoured as an icon, principled leader and African intellectual giant at a state funeral yesterday, after a week of disputes over his burial threatened to embarrass President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mugabe led Zimbabwe for 37
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Mugabe’s body brought home, burial place still undecided
The body of Zimbabwe’s founding father Robert Mugabe arrived home at the country’s main airport in Harare yesterday, but it was still unclear where he would be buried amid a dispute between some family members and the government. Mugabe, one
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Mugabe’s body to leave Singapore for Zimbabwe today
SINGAPORE: The body of Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe will be flown home from Singapore today, five days after he died in hospital in the city-state, according to an event schedule. A plane carrying Mugabe’s body was due to leave
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Govt, family face off over Mugabe’s burial site
HARARE: The family of Zimbabwe founder Robert Mugabe is pushing back against the government’s plan to bury him at the National Heroes Acre monument in Harare and wants him to be buried in his home village instead, three relatives told Reuters. Zimbabweans
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Mnangagwa: Late Mugabe declared a national hero
HARARE: The Zimbabwe government yesterday declared the late founding father of the nation and liberation icon former President Robert Mugabe a national hero, Zimbabwe’s news agency New Ziana reported. Mugabe, 95, died early yesterday at a hospital in Singapore where
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Mugabe: From liberator to oppressor
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero and champion of racial reconciliation when he first came to power in a nation divided by nearly a century of white colonial rule. Nearly four decades later, many at
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Zimbabwe’s ex-president Robert Mugabe dies in Singapore
SINGAPORE: Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe has died aged 95, the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on his official Twitter account. Mugabe died in Singapore, where he has often received medical treatment in recent years, a source with direct knowledge
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