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Former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi dies at 95
Source: Associated Press
Former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi dies at 95
By TOM ODULA
February 4, 2020
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Daniel arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and economic turmoil fueled by runaway corruption, has died. He was 95.
Moi’s death was announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta in a statement Tuesday.
Moi, who ruled Kenya for 24 years, had been in and out of hospital for months.
He died peacefully Tuesday morning, said Moi’s son Senator Gideon Moi at the Nairobi hospital.
Kenyatta ordered national flags to fly half-mast from Tuesday until sunset of the day of the burial. He said Moi, Kenya’s second president, was a leader in the struggle for independence and an ardent Pan-Africanist.
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By TOM ODULA
February 4, 2020
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Daniel arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and economic turmoil fueled by runaway corruption, has died. He was 95.
Moi’s death was announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta in a statement Tuesday.
Moi, who ruled Kenya for 24 years, had been in and out of hospital for months.
He died peacefully Tuesday morning, said Moi’s son Senator Gideon Moi at the Nairobi hospital.
Kenyatta ordered national flags to fly half-mast from Tuesday until sunset of the day of the burial. He said Moi, Kenya’s second president, was a leader in the struggle for independence and an ardent Pan-Africanist.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/8516352e55f5b751ee367f1fcc10191a
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