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President Muhammadu Buhari has extended condolence to the people of Zambia over the death of former president, Kenneth Kaunda.
Zambia’s founding president and liberation hero, died aged 97 at a military hospital in Lusaka where he was being treated for pneumonia, his son Kambarage said on Wednesday.
Buhari described the late president as a national hero who showed strong commitment to the survival of Zambia Nationhood.
Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, when the southern African nation won its independence from Britain, until 1991, and afterwards become one of Africa’s most committed activists against HIV/AIDS.
“I am sad to inform (members) we have lost Mzee. Let’s pray for him,” Kambarage said on the late president’s Facebook page.
The former president had been feeling unwell and had been admitted to the Maina Soko Medical Centre in Lusaka earlier this week.
Although Zambia’s copper-based economy fared badly under his long stewardship, Kaunda will be remembered more for his role as an anti-colonial fighter who constantly challenged white minority-ruled South Africa.
