Zambia s Kenneth Kaunda laid to rest at presidential cemetery
Thursday July 08 2021
Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi pays his last respects to the late former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda during his state memorial service in Lusaka on July 2, 2021. PHOTO | AFP
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Some of his relatives had wanted him buried at his farm next to his late wife Betty, with whom he had 10 children.
But the burial proceeded on Wednesday without incident at Embassy Park, a special cemetery dedicated for the country s leaders.
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Zambia s founding leader Kenneth Kaunda was laid to rest at the country s presidential burial site on Wednesday despite an 11th-hour bid by some of his relatives to block the interment.
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