What did jerry rawlings do for ghana

He was twice the head of state of Ghana and was the 1st President of the Fourth Republic. He was court-martialled in public and sentenced to death. Before he could be executed, another group of junior officers within the Ghana Army led by Major Boakye-Djan, overthrew the then military government of Lieutenant General Fred Akuffo in a bloody coup on June 4, At the time of the coup, Ghana was already far into the process of returning to civilian rule and general elections were already scheduled.

Hilla Limann who won the popular vote in the election to establish the short lived Third Republic.

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Less than two years later, Dr. He switched from being a military Head of State, retired from the military, then ran and won in the elections which the opposition New Patriotic Party NPP claimed was a stolen verdict although international observers judged the elections largely free and fair. Rawlings married his childhood sweetheart Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings and had four children: three girls and a boy.

He is the joint recipient of the World Hunger Award. He held several international appointments after his political career including the AU High Representative for Somalia. Rawlings undertook advocacy work to further mobilize the continent and the rest of the international community to fully assume its responsibilities and contribute more actively to the quest for peace, security and reconciliation in Somalia, a country battered by a long and bitter civil war.

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