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