Colin Powell, former U.S Secretary of State under the George Bush administration and the first black man to serve in the position has been announced dead due to complications related to covid.
This was disclosed by U.S media reports on Monday afternoon.
CNN reported that his family says he passed on in the early hours of this morning. He was 84.
“General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19,” the Powell family said.
“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” they remarked, noting that he was fully vaccinated.
Powell was the first African American to serve in the position of Secretary of State after a career in the U.S military. He later advanced to become the first Black National Security Adviser under the later years of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and the first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush.
