Jerry Rawlings, From Coup-Plotter to Ghanaian Statesman, Dies at 73

Jerry Rawlings, a former Ghanaian Air Force officer who led two military coups before steering his country toward democracy with an authoritarian hand, died on Thursday in the nation’s capital, Accra. He was 73.

Mr. Rawlings died in a hospital “after

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