"It was not an easy thing for him to take," he added. Obituary: Robert Mugabe From liberator to tyrant In pictures: The life of Robert Mugabe Africa live: Updates from across the continent ...

It's been an appropriately fractured, uneasy week in Zimbabwe. As the country has tried to deal with the long-anticipated death of its loved and loathed founding father, Robert Mugabe, the nation ...

A collaborative AP effort produced outstanding images and powerful storytelling surrounding Robert Mugabe’s death, and explored the hardships of the people he left in economic crisis. Mourners ...

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe (pictured) was feted as an African ... denounced him as a power-obsessed autocrat willing to unleash death squads, rig elections and trash the economy in the relentless ...

His death came after repeated bouts of illness ... which was about to end during his presidency. His support for Robert Mugabe at the time generated widespread criticism. He was said to have ...

the number of death sentences rose from 28 in 1965 to 71 in 1968. After Robert Mugabe became prime minister of an independent Zimbabwe in 1980, the number of executions began to decline significantly.