The 61-year-old economist and presidential candidate was evacuated from the country after becoming corona sick. An ambulance plane with Kolelas took off for France on Sunday afternoon.
Kolela’s “died on board the ambulance plane that came to pick him up from Brazzaville”, election campaign manager Christian Cyr Rodrigue Mayanda told the news agency AFP.
Sunday’s election went as planned, and 77-year-old Denis Sassou Nguesso, who has ruled for 36 years, is facing a fourth term as president of the oil-rich republic.
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