A former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings is dead.
He was aged 73.
The Ex-President died in the early hours of Thursday at the Cardiothoracic Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
Rawlings was said to have been battling with his ill-health over the past few weeks.
Unconfirmed sources said the death may not be unconnected to Covid-19 related complications.
It would be recalled that the late Rawlings buried his late mother Madam Victoria Agbotui in October 2020.
Rawlings, who is one of the most respected African leaders, was a military leader in Ghana and later became a politician who ruled the country from 1981 to 2001.
The former President initially came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a coup d’état in 1979.
Prior to that, he led an unsuccessful coup attempt against the ruling military government on 15 May 1979, just five weeks before scheduled democratic elections were due to take place.
He was until his death, the African Union envoy to Somalia.
