BREAKING:Former Ghana president Rawlings dies of COVID-19

TRACKING____Former Ghanian President Jerry Rawlings has died of coronavirus-related complications at the age of 73, Ghanaian media reports.

Rawlings was one of the most respected African leaders. He was a military leader in Ghana and later became a politician who ruled the country from 1981 to 2001.

The former president initially came to power in Ghana as a flight lieutenant of the Ghana Air Force following a coup d’état in 1979.

Rawlings’ death came a month after he buried his mother.

Details later.