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Former President Jerry John Rawlings has threatened to sue the AfricaWatch magazine following reports by the magazine that the former president has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
The May 2016 edition of the magazine had a cover story and headline “Now this Man needs your prayers, Parkinson’s disease eats Rawlings’ strength away.”
The magazine claimed to have information from Mr. Rawlings’ doctors although the story did not have the details to his particular condition.
Lawyers for ex-president Rawlings have since asked Liberty Media Concepts, publishers of the magazine, to retract the story and apologise with the same prominence given to the story or face legal action.

The former President’s lawyers say the publication is a fabrication and defamatory want the distribution of the magazine to be halted immediately.
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