(UTV|COLOMBO) -African leaders are gathering in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare as the country prepares for former president Robert Mugabe’s funeral on Saturday.
More than a dozen current and former leaders, including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, are expected to attend.
A national sports stadium is expected to be filled with well-wishers.
The funeral follows a row between the Mugabe family and the government over his burial.
Some dignitaries, including Equatorial Guinea President Theodore Obiang Nguema, have already arrived.
Mr Obiang, who came to power in 1979 and has so far outlasted Mr Mugabe’s 30-year rule by a decade, said he was “a leader without comparison on the African continent” and praised his controversial policy of seizing white-owned farms.
“The people of Zimbabwe will forever be grateful that he took land from the whites and gave it to his people,” he said. (BBC)
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