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Nairobi, Kenya – Jimmy Carter was the first US President to pay a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa. He once called helping Zimbabwe transition from white rule to independence as “our greatest success”. And when he died at the age of 100, his foundation’s work in rural Africa had nearly completed his quest to eliminate…
Palm Beach, Florida – US President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he plans to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter. When Trump was asked about it while attending a New Year’s Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, he replied, “I’ll be there.” Asked if he had spoken to Carter’s family…
Jarweng, South Sudan – Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging a war to eradicate an ancient parasite plaguing the world’s poorest people. Rarely fatal but extremely painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water contaminated with larvae that develop inside the body into worms up to 3 feet…
