Jerry Rawlings: Ghana's former president dies aged 73

 

Ghana's former President Jerry John Rawlings has died at the age of 73.

He died Thursday morning [November 12, 2020] at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra, family sources confirmed to Graphic Online.

Mr Rawlings had been on admission at Korle Bu for about a week for an undisclosed ailment.

Graphic Online gathers he felt sick after his mother's burial about three weeks ago.

Mr Rawlings was born on June 22, 1947.

His mother, Madam Victoria Agbotui died in September 2020 at age 101 and was buried on October 24, 2020, the last time that Mr Rawlings was seen in public.

Mr Rawlings' father was Scottish whilst his mother was Ghanaian.