Ghana's president has died on Tuesday at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, the country's chief of staff has confirm. He has been suffering from a long battle with sickness and returned recently to Ghana from a medical checkup in the US. He was the third and current President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and was inaugurated on the 7th of January 2009, having defeated the ruling party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 election.
He was Vice-President from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry John Rawlings, and stood unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He recently returned from a nine day medical check-up in the United States.
Prior to his trip to the U.S of A on June 16th, questions had been asked about the whereabouts of the president after he had not been seen in public for close to two weeks whilst communal violence ravaged parts of the country.
After a successful routine medical checkup in New York, John Mills arrived home at about 12:45pm on Monday 25th June, 2012 to a rousing welcome.
Before his departure to the USA, President Mills quashed rumours of his death when he addressed the media. He also stated that he is going for a "routine check-up" and will be "away for a few days."
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