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Zambia’s iconic Kenneth Kaunda dead at 97
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Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda died on Thursday at the age of 97, the government announced, days after he was admitted to hospital with pneumonia. The government declared 21 days of national mourning, ordered flags to fly at half mast and banned all entertainment in honour of the “icon and global statesman”. “You have gone at a time we least expected,” President Edgar Lungu said on Facebook, describing Kaunda as a “true African icon.” Cabinet secretary Simon Miti said in an address on public television that Kaunda “died peacefully” at 2:30pm at a military hospital where he had been receiving treatment since Monday. Kaunda ruled Zambia for 27 years, taking the helm after the co

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