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Jerry Rawlings Dead: Ghana’s Former president dies at 73

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Jerry John Rawlings the former president of Ghana has died at the age of 73.

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Jerry died today in Accra the capital of Ghana while undergoing medical treatment at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.

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Rawlings mother Madam Victoria Agbotui died and was buried last month at the age of 101.

Rawlings was a former military leader in 1979 who became a politician and ruled Ghana from 1981 to 2001.

This is breaking news, more details will be added later.

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In other news, Kanyi Daily recently reported that Globally celebrated Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ for her novel ‘Half of a Yellow Sun‘.

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