The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than three million cases have been logged on the continent since the start of the pandemic, with South Africa accounting for more than 30 percent.
The year 2020 was one that many people across the globe will pray never to witness again as it will be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic and the attendant casualties it wrecked on the world.
Many high profile deaths were recorded both in Africa and the world at large, but the announcement of death of prominent African leaders every other month was to a greater dimension as they played a big role in news coverage across the continent in 2020.
In this Year in Review series, we take a look at prominent African leaders who passed on in the year 2020.
Daniel Arap Moi – Kenya’s second president
THE STANDARD By Joe Ombuor |
December 31st 2020 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings. [Courtesy]
Like the setting sun, the year 2020 is glowering red to its retirement. But only after wreaking havoc galore and leaving tears in its wake, thanks to the novel coronavirus pandemic that has left the world bleeding.
The virus did not discriminate as it snuffed out the lives of presidents and prime ministers. Some leaders, however, died of other causes.
One of the first Covid-19 victims, on March 30, was Jacques Yombi Opango, who served as prime minister of the Republic of Congo (Congo Brazzaville) between 1977 and 1979.