Former US President Jimmy Carter dies at age 100
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The Carter Centre announced the former president had died peacefully and surrounded by his family.
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Former President Jimmy Carter poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2007. (AP)
Former US President Jimmy Carter, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has died at 100, US media outlets reported on Sunday.
The longest-living American president died after spending more than a year in hospice care, at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died aged 96 in November 2023, had spent most of their life, according to The Carter Center.
"Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia," the center wrote on the social networking platform X, detailing he died peacefully and surrounded by his family.
Carter, a moderate Democrat, began the 1976 presidential campaign as a relatively unknown Georgia governor. With a technocratic approach informed by his engineering background and a vow of honesty, he appealed to disillusioned Americans following the Richard Nixon scandal and the Vietnam War.
Carter's administration, characterized by Cold War tensions, economic problems, and social issues, is most known for brokering the Camp David Accords, which resulted in a "peace agreement" between Egypt and the Israeli occupation in 1978.
However, his administration was marred by economic turbulence, including high inflation, gasoline shortages, and the Iran hostage crisis. The botched rescue effort that ended with the death of eight Americans in 1980 was a humiliating point, contributing to his massive defeat to Ronald Reagan.
