Former US Secretary of State dies of Covid Complications

Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State of the United States, died of Covid problems. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died of Covid-19 complications at the age of 84, has received tributes.


According to his family, the former top military officer died early Monday morning. He had received all of his vaccinations. Powell was appointed as the first African-American Secretary of State by Republican President George W. Bush in 2001.


He also created controversy by assisting in the mobilization of support for the Iraq War.


"We have lost a remarkable and beloved husband, father, grandpa, and a great American," the family wrote in a statement, praising the Walter Reed Medical Center personnel for "caring treatment."


Powell had previously been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a kind of blood cancer that, according to reports in the United States, may have left him more susceptible to Covid symptoms, as well as Parkinson's disease.


Powell, whom President Joe Biden described as a "close friend," reflected the "highest values of both warrior and diplomat," according to Biden.

Colin Powell's obituary

Former President George W. Bush was among the first to pay tribute to "a remarkable public worker" as well as "a family guy and a friend" who "was so beloved by presidents that he got the Presidential Medal of Freedom - twice."


Powell was praised by Mr. Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, as "a man who loved his country and served her long and well," as well as "a trailblazer and role model for so many."

Read: FRSC Cautions Motorists not to drive recklessly on Eid-el-Maulud


Powell "knew what was best in this country, and attempted to put his personal life, career, and public pronouncements in line with that ideal," according to former President Barack Obama, a Democrat.


Powell's successor, Condoleezza Rice, the first black woman to serve as Secretary of State, described him as "a genuinely wonderful man" whose "devotion to our country was not confined to the many excellent things he performed while in service or during his time spent in Washington."


"The endless number of young lives he touched will carry on much of his legacy."


Powell's life was dubbed "a victory of the American Dream" by current Secretary of State Antony Blinken.


Mr Blinken said Powell gave the State Department "the absolute best of his leadership."
"He never lost faith in America, and we have faith in America in no small part because of people like Colin Powell."


Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who worked closely with Powell during the early years of the Iraq War, described him as a "wonderful companion" with a "lovely and self-deprecating sense of humour."


Reminiscences from notable African-American leaders also flooded in. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus honored his "record of gallantry and honesty," while civil rights activist Al Sharpton called him "a sincere and passionate guy."


Powell was hailed as "a tremendous personal friend and mentor" who would be "impossible to replace" by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the first black man to hold the position.



Colin Powell was a national hero in the United States. He was the first black man to reach to the top levels of the US military and diplomacy. He was the son of immigrants.


Powell, like General Dwight D Eisenhower after WWII, was one of the few American public personalities with cross-political appeal in the 1990s.


Powell, unlike Eisenhower, would not run for president, despite widespread appeals for him to do so.


After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, which Powell subsequently admitted was a "blot" on his record, those calls declined. He had placed his reputation on the presence of Iraqi WMDs, and his reputation had suffered as a result.


Powell evolved into a different kind of icon in his final years. Powell's departure from the Republican Party in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election showed the waning influence of Powell's moderate, internationalist faction within the conservative movement in the United States.


Powell's life may be eclipsed by his cause of death, as he is now the most well-known American to die from Covid-19.