Zambia's former Vice President Guy Scott, who in 2014 became Africa's ​first white head of state ‌in two decades when he briefly served as acting president, has died at the age ​of 82, the government said ​on Wednesday.

• Scott died in Lusaka at his ⁠farm in the Leopards Hill area ​after an illness, the government said ​in a statement.
• Scott served as vice president under "King Cobra" Michael Sata from 2011 to 2014 and ​became acting president after Sata's death ​in October 2014, serving until January 2015.
• Scott's brief ‌tenure ⁠made him Africa's first white head of state in two decades, since South Africa's F.W. de Klerk left office ​in 1994.
• A ​Cambridge-educated economist ⁠born in Zambia to Scottish parents, Scott was constitutionally barred ​from running in the subsequent ​presidential ⁠election because neither of his parents was born in Zambia.
• President Hakainde Hichilema has ⁠accorded ​Scott a state funeral, ​according to the government statement.