Jimmy Carter: Nobel-winning humanitarian and ex-US president dies aged 100

Former US President Jimmy Carter only served a single term in the White House, but achieved a towering legacy that gained renewed respect in his later life [File: John Amis/Reuters]

Among the maize, yam and peanut farms of Savelugu-Nanton, a remote district of northern Ghana, the legacy of Jimmy Carter is less complicated than it is back in the former US president’s homeland.

Thanks to the work of his charity, The Carter Center, locals are nowadays spared the misery of Guinea worm disease – a parasite that breeds in the human belly and emerges through the skin before laying larvae in stagnant pools to await the next victim.