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Posted: Tuesday, 19 August 2008 8:54AM
Zambian President Dies
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PARIS (AP) -- The French president's office says Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa has died. He was 59.
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The statement from President Nicolas Sarkozy's office did not say how, when or where the Zambian leader had died.
Mwanawasa had been hospitalized in France since suffering a stroke in June. Zambian state media said earlier Tuesday that his condition had suddenly taken a turn for the worse.
Mwanawasa won praise for his anti-corruption and economic modernization drive in one of the world's biggest copper producers but failed to lift the Zambian people out of crushing poverty.
Sarkozy called his death ``a great loss for the African continent'' and for democracy.
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