Zimbabwe Minister Shiri Who Helped Plot Mugabe Ouster Dies

Zimbabwe's Agriculture Minister Perrance Shiri, a retired general who helped plot the ouster of Robert Mugabe in a 2017 military intervention, has died. "Shiri was a true patriot, who devoted his life to the liberation, independence, and service of his country," President Emmerson Mnangagwa said in a statement. He later said Shiri had died of Covid-19.

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The late Perrance Shiri.

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