Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president, dies aged 97

One of Africa's last surviving liberation leaders dies in hospital in Lusaka while being treated for pneumonia

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president and one of Africa's last surviving liberation leaders, has died at a military hospital in Lusaka, where he was being treated for pneumonia. He was 97.

Kaunda ruled the southern African nation from 1964, when it won independence from Britain, until 1991, and is respected across the continent as one of the generation who fought to free their nations from colonial rule.