{"id":69864,"date":"2019-09-06T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=69864"},"modified":"2019-09-06T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T11:29:11","slug":"robert-mugabe-long-time-zimbabwe-leader-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/robert-mugabe-long-time-zimbabwe-leader-dies-at-95\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mugabe, long time Zimbabwe leader, dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Robert Mugabe, the longtime leader of Zimbabwe who was forced to resign in 2017 after a military takeover, has died.His successor Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed Mugabe&#8217;s death in a tweet Friday, mourning him as an &#8220;icon of liberation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mugabe was a former guerrilla chief who took power after the end of white minority rule in 1980 and presided over a country whose early promise was eroded by economic turmoil and human rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Mugabe blamed Zimbabwe&#8217;s economic problems on Western sanctions and once said he wanted to rule for life, growing discontent about the country&#8217;s leadership prompted a military intervention, impeachment proceedings and large street demonstrations.<br>\nOn February 21, 2018, Mugabe marked his first birthday since his resignation in near solitude, far from the lavish affair of past years.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mugabe, the longtime leader of Zimbabwe who was forced to resign in 2017 after a military takeover, has died.His successor Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed Mugabe&#8217;s death in a tweet Friday, mourning him as an &#8220;icon of liberation&#8221;. Mugabe was a former guerrilla chief who took power after the end of white minority rule in 1980 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69866,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69864\/revisions\/69866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}