John Garang’s Death – Cause and Date

The politician John Garang died at the age of 60. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Leader of the Sudan People’s Liberal Army who briefly held office as the President of Southern Sudan before dying in a helicopter crash in 2005. He was a powerful leader during the Second Sudanese Civil War, where he fought the Sudanese government from 1983 to 2005.

He was in a long marriage with Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior.

In late July 2005, Garang died after the Ugandan presidential Mi-172 helicopter he was flying in crashed. He had been returning from a meeting in Rwakitura with long-time ally President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda.