Buhari, a former military general who campaigned on rooting out government corruption, has died at age 82, the presidential press office said in a statement on Sunday.

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Major General Muhammadu Buhari, who served twice as Nigeria’s president, once in the 1980s as a harsh military dictator and more recently as an unlikely symbol of democracy, has died in London aged 82.