Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding father, is dead

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Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president, has died at the age of 97.

“On behalf of the entire nation and on my own behalf, I pray that the entire Kaunda family is comforted as we mourn our first president and true African icon,” President Edgar Lungu said in a statement.In 1991, he was forced to hold the first multi-party elections for 23 years and he lost to long-time foe, Frederick Chiluba.

 

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