An international human rights advocacy group says Robert Mugabe inflicted lasting damage on Zimbabweans and the country’s reputation, “while casting himself as the saviour” of the embattled nation.  

Mugabe, a deeply polarising figure and the Zimbabwean independence hero who turned dictator, died aged 95 in a hospital in Singapore on Friday...

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