Colin Powell, a war hero and first Black US secretary of state, dies of Covid-19

Colin Powell

Colin Powell, the first Black US Secretary of State died on October 18, 2021 at the age of 84. PHOTO | AFP

Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants who became a US war hero and the first Black secretary of state but saw his legacy tarnished when he made the case for war in Iraq in 2003, died on Monday of Covid-19 complications. He was 84.

"We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American," the family said in a statement posted to social media on Monday.