{"id":70117,"date":"2019-09-11T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T11:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=70117"},"modified":"2019-09-11T11:35:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T11:35:46","slug":"body-of-zimbabwes-mugabe-to-leave-singapore-for-burial-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/body-of-zimbabwes-mugabe-to-leave-singapore-for-burial-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of Zimbabwe\u2019s Mugabe to leave Singapore for burial at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The body of Zimbabwe\u2019s former president Robert Mugabe will be flown home from Singapore on Wednesday, five days after he died in hospital in the city-state, according to an event schedule.A plane carrying Mugabe\u2019s body was due to leave Singapore at 8.50 am, the programme of events showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police motorbikes lined up outside the Singapore Casket, a funeral parlour where Mugabe\u2019s body was being held, in a sign that a dignitary would soon be departing.Mugabe\u2019s body was expected to arrive in Zimbabwe on Wednesday at 3 pm, a family member told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mugabe died on Friday aged 95 in Singapore, where he had long received medical treatment. He had dominated Zimbabwean politics for almost four decades from independence in 1980 until he was removed by his own army in a November 2017 coup.Revered by many as a liberator who freed his people from white minority rule, Mugabe was vilified by others for wrecking one of Africa\u2019s most promising economies and ruthlessly crushing his opponents.<\/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>The body of Zimbabwe\u2019s former president Robert Mugabe will be flown home from Singapore on Wednesday, five days after he died in hospital in the city-state, according to an event schedule.A plane carrying Mugabe\u2019s body was due to leave Singapore at 8.50 am, the programme of events showed. Police motorbikes lined up outside the Singapore [&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":70118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70117","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\/70117","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=70117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70119,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70117\/revisions\/70119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}