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Agence France-Presse

Zimbabwe’s founding president Robert Mugabe had “advanced cancer” when he died aged 95 in hospital in Singapore on September 6, the country’s state-owned newspaper reported on Monday.
The former guerilla leader came to power at the end of white minority rule in 1980 and led Zimbabwe uninterrupted for 37 years and seven months.
The Singapore connections of late Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe
He was toppled on November 2017 in a military-backed coup, ending an increasingly iron-fisted rule marked by political oppression and economic ruin.
Mugabe’s health deteriorated rapidly after the ousting and he made regular trips to Singapore to seek treatment.

“Mugabe had advanced cancer, and had to be taken off chemotherapy treatment because it was no longer effective,” The Herald reported.
The information was revealed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa during an address to party supporters in New York on Saturday, according to the paper. This is the first time the government has given his cause of death.
“Doctors had stopped treatment … because of age and also because the cancer had spread and it was not helping any more,” Mnangagwa was quoted as saying.
Mugabe’s nephew Leo Mugabe said he had “no comment on that”.
The family had previously downplayed Mugabe’s frequent trips to Singapore as necessary for cataract treatment.
China mourns Zimbabwe’s Mugabe after years of unwavering support
In 2011, whistle-blower site WikiLeaks published a US diplomatic cable which said Mugabe had prostate cancer and it had spread to other organs.
The cable, written in 2008 by the US embassy in Harare, said the former president had five years left to live at the time.
Mugabe is expected to be buried next month at a monument for national heroes in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. 


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Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe had ‘advanced cancer’ when he died in a Singapore hospital

Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe in 2018. Photo: Reuters

A member of the presidential guard bows his head next to the coffin of late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe lying in state at Murombedzi Growth Point, about 107 km northwest of Harare, Zimbabwe, on September 16, 2019, as people have been accorded the opportunity to view Mugabe's body a week after his death. - The remains of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe were taken to his village for a wake on September 16, a family member said, as his final burial is prepared in about a month. Mugabe died a week ago aged 95 in Singapore, nearly two years after he was ousted in a 2017 coup that ended nearly four decades of increasingly autocratic rule. After a state funeral on September 14 in the capital Harare attended by African leaders, his body went to his rural village of Kutama, 90 kilometres (55 miles) to the west, to allow villagers to pay tribute and bid farewell. (Photo by Zinyange Auntony / AFP)

A general view of Gleneagles Hospital, where Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe received medical treatment, in Singapore, September 6, 2019. REUTERS/Feline Lim

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe dies in Singapore hospital aged 95

Robert Mugabe pictured last year at his residence in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. Photo: AFP

FILE PHOTO: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe addresses supporters during celebrations to mark his 90th birthday in Marondera about 80km ( 50 miles) east of the capital Harare, February 23, 2014. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

FILE PHOTO: The Princess of Wales talks to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe when she paid a courtesy visit at Harare's State house, July 10, 1993. REUTERS/Howard Burditt/File Photo

FILE PHOTO: President Robert Mugabe listens to his wife Grace Mugabe at a rally of his ruling ZANU-PF party in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

A picture taken on September 2, 2017, shows Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai addresses a crowd gathered during his last opposition rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo. Morgan Tsvangirai, the veteran Zimbabwean opposition leader who confronted Robert Mugabe's regime for many years, died aged 65 on February 14, 2018, after a battle with cancer, a party official said. / AFP PHOTO / Jekesai NJIKIZANA

China mourns Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe after years of unwavering support

Chinese President Xi Jinping walks hand in hand with then-leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, in Harare in 2015. Photo: AFP

People gather around a portrait of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in Harare, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule whose early promise was eroded by economic turmoil, disputed elections and human rights violations, has died. He was 95. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Chinese President Hu Jintao (L) accompanies Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (C) at a welcome ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, 26 July 2005. Following sanctions and isolation from Western countries over Mugabe's disastarous and criminal political reforms, Zimbabwe has turned to Asia, seeking to buttress political and trade relations in particular with China, Malaysia and Singapore. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS

Relatives fly to Singapore to bring Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe home

Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe, died at a hospital in Singapore on Friday. Photo: AFP

epa07823042 Relatives of the former President Robert Mugabe embrace as they enter the Singapore Casket building in Singapore, 06 September 2019. According to media reports, Robert Mugabe died on 06 September 2019 at the age of 95, in a Singapore hospital. Robert Mugabe became prime minister of Zimbabwe (formerly known as Rhodesia) in 1980 and served as the country's president from 1987 until his forced resignation in 2017, after 37 years of autocratic rule. In 1963, he co-founded ZANU, a resistance movement against British colonial rule. EPA-EFE/WALLACE WOON

Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's nephews, Leo Mugabe and Philip Chiyangwa, are consoled by relatives at their uncle's rural homestead in Kutama, Zimbabwe, September 7, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Thousands gather in Zimbabwe for former president Robert Mugabe’s state funeral

Soldiers carry the coffin of Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe into the Rufaro stadium in Harare. Photo: AFP

The casket of former president Robert Mugabe, covered by the national flag and followed by family and dignitaries, arrives for a state funeral at the National Sports Stadium in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. African heads of state and envoys are gathering to attend a state funeral for Mugabe, whose burial has been delayed for at least a month until a special mausoleum can be built for his remains. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

TOPSHOT - A supporter of the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe waves a piece of cloth bearing his image as mourners break into song and dance during a public send off at the Rufaro stadium in Harare on September 13, 2019. - The family of former Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe have agreed to bury him at a monument for national heroes in Harare, the family said on September 13, though the date for the ceremony remained unclear. Mugabe died in Singapore last week aged 95, leaving Zimbabweans deeply divided over the legacy of a leader once lauded as an anti-colonial guerrilla hero, but whose 37-year iron-fisted rule ended in a coup in 2017. (Photo by Zinyange Auntony / AFP)

epa07840006 The statue of the unknown soldier (L) at the National Hero Acre where late former Zimbawean President Robert Mugabe was originally scheduled to be buried in Harare, Zimbabwe, 13 September 2019. Mugabe passed away on 06 September aged 95 in Singapore where he had been receiving treatment since April this year. Mugabe led the country post-independence from 1980 to 2017 when he was ousted in a military coup. The public will be able to pay their respects to Mugabe on 12 and 13 September in Harare before his burial. EPA-EFE/AARON UFUMELI

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Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has for the first time revealed the cause of his 95-year-old predecessor’s death
Chemotherapy treatment was stopped because of Mugabe’s advanced age and the spread of the cancer



Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has for the first time revealed the cause of his 95-year-old predecessor’s death, saying chemotherapy treatment was stopped because of Mugabe’s advanced age and the spread of the cancer.


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