Robert Mugabe
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Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born on February 21, 1924) has served as the head of government in Zimbabwe since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as the first executive President since 1987.[1] He rose to prominence in the 1960s as a Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) leader in guerilla warfare against white-minority rule in Rhodesia in the Bush War (1964–1979).
Since 1998 Mugabe's policies have increasingly elicited domestic and international denunciation. Mugabe's government pursued a costly intervention in the Second Congo War, expropriated thousands of white-owned farms,[2] printed hundreds of trillions of Zimbabwean dollars triggering hyperinflation,[3] and has been accused of harassing and intimidating political opponents, particularly members of the Movement for Democratic Change.[4] Zimbabwe's economy spiraled downward,[5] with food and oil shortages,[6] and with massive internal displacement[7] and emigration.[8][9]During this recent period Mugabe's policies also have been denounced in the West and at home as racist against Zimbabwe's white minority.[10][11][12]
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