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Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda dies aged 97

Former President of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda in Qunu on December 15, 2013. [Reuters]

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president and liberation hero, has died aged 97 at a military hospital in Lusaka where he was being treated for pneumonia, his son Kambarage said on Wednesday.

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