Rawlings, former Ghanaian president, dies from Covid-19 complications

Former president of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, has died from complications of coronavirus.
The former president, according to reports, had been on admission at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for about a week for Covid-19 before he was reported dead on Thursday. He was aged 73.

Rawlings just buried his mother last month.

Born in Accra, Ghana on 22 June 1947 to a Ghanaian mother from Dzelukope, near Keta, in the Volta Region, and a Scottish father, Jerry John Rawlings was a military ruler who later joined politics. He ruled Ghana from 1981 to 2001.

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He led a military junta until 1992, and then served two terms as the democratically elected president of Ghana.