30/12/2024
FORMER US President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100, his foundation has announced
He died on Sunday afternoon at home in Plains, Georgia. Carter served as the 39th president for one term from 1977 until 1981, and was the longest-lived president in US history.
In the turbulent aftermath of Watergate, the former peanut farmer from Georgia pardoned Vietnam draft evaders and became the first US leader to take climate change seriously.
He helped to broker an historic peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, but he struggled to deal with the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
After a single term in office, he was swept aside by Ronald Reagan when he won just six states in the 1980 election.
