Mwanawasa is no more

  1. Posted on Tuesday 19 August 2008 - 15:17
    Mugadza
    Mugadza Munyaradzi, AfricaNews reporter in Harare, Zimbabwe
    Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died in a French hospital on Tuesday after suffering a stroke in June, Vice President Rupiah Banda said.
    Levy Mwanawasa
    The late president was 59 years of age.

    "Fellow countrymen, with deep sorrow and grief, I would like to inform the people of Zambia that our president Dr. Levy Patrick Mwanawasa died this morning at 1030 hours (0830 GMT)," Banda said on state television.

    "I also wish to inform the nation that national mourning starts today and will be for seven days." he said

    The vice president early this week announced that Mwanawasa's was in a comma adding that the Zambian leader had been responding well to treatment before he lapsed into a comma.

    Mwanawasa suffered a second stroke during an African Union summit in Egypt in June and was flown to France where he had remained at the Percy Military Hospital until his death.

    After the tragedy, Mwanawasa was in the headlines as many people believed that he had passed away.

    Mwanawasa was the only SADC leader to have confronted Robert Mugabe over the situation ion Zimbabwe and in 2007 Mwanawasa described Zimbabwe as a sinking titanic whose passengers are jumping out in a bid to save their lives because of the economic recession in the country.

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