Robert Mugabe died on 6 September 2019 in Gleneagles Hospital, aged 95. A Zimbabwean politician, Mugabe was a teacher who became a leader of the guerrilla war against white minority rule in Rhodesia. After independence in 1980 he served as prime minister, and from 1987 as president, ruling for nearly four decades. Early on he was praised for improvements in education and health, but his government's violent suppression of opponents in Matabeleland in the 1980s caused thousands of deaths. From 2000 land seizures from white farmers helped to bring about economic collapse and hyperinflation, while disputed elections and repression drew sanctions from Western countries. The army and his own party forced him from power in November 2017, and he died in Singapore in 2019.
Before and after
- 21 July 20192019 Yuen Long attack
- 22 July 2019Launch of Chandrayaan-2
- 5 August 2019Death of Toni Morrison
- 10 August 2019Bærum mosque shooting
- 6 September 2019Death of Robert Mugabe
- from 20 September 2019 to 22 September 2019Storm Area 51
- from 24 September 2019 to 18 December 2019First impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump
- from 30 September 2019 to 14 January 20202019–20 Peruvian constitutional crisis
- from 3 October 2019 to 14 October 20192019 Ecuadorian protests
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