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Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100

Biden declares Jan 9 national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter 

Published : Tuesday, 31 December, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 298
ATLANTA, Dec 30: Tributes poured in Monday for Jimmy Carter, the former US president and Nobel peace laureate who rose from humble beginnings in rural Georgia to lead the nation and died aged 100. 

Carter had been in hospice care since mid-February 2023 at his home in Plains, Georgia -- the same small town where he was born and once ran a peanut farm before becoming governor and running for the White House.

Carter died "peacefully" at his home in Plains, "surrounded by his family," the Carter Center said in a statement on Sunday.

"My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights and unselfish love," Chip Carter said in the statement.

Outside the White House, where the flag was lowered to half-staff, visitor Yoni Neirman remembered Carter, for whom she voted, as "a real statesman, and that kind of person doesn't seem to exist, at least not in the near future."

In Georgia, retiree Dorner Carmichael expressed the same sentiment.

"Every time you lose a person of such integrity, who spent his life in service, you just wonder who will fill his shoes," the 75-year-old said.

Carter was the longest-lived US president -- an outcome that seemed unlikely when the Southern Democrat revealed in 2015 that he had brain cancer.

Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden on Sunday declared January 9 a national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter, calling on Americans to visit their places of worship to "pay homage" to the late US leader.    —AFP



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