FORMER Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is expected to be buried on Sunday, according to state media reports.
The ex-guerilla leader became the country’s first leader following independence from white minority rule in 1980 and held on to power until he was forced to resign in 2017. He died in Singapore on Friday at the age of 95.
His body will arrive in Zimbabwe on Wednesday, the Sunday Mail quoted presidential spokesman George Charamba as saying.
The body will be taken to his home, about 53 miles (85km) south-west of capital Harare before being placed in a giant stadium for public viewing.
Mugabe is still seen by many as a national hero, with some even beginning to say they missed him after his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa failed to revive the economy and used the army to crush dissent.
DEMONSTRATORS in Hong Kong marched to the US Embassy yesterday, urging President Donald Trump to “liberate” the city as they press for more freedom in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Thousands of people converged on a park in central Hong Kong, chanting “Resist Beijing, Liberate Hong Kong”.
“Hong Kong is at the forefront of the battle against the totalitarian regime of China,” said Panzer Chan, one of the organisers of the march. “Please support us in our fight.”
Hong Kong has been rocked by a summer of unrest kicked off by the extradition bill.
Many saw the bill – which the government has now promised to withdraw – as an example of the Chinese territory’s eroding autonomy since the former British colony was returned to China.
ONE of the most powerful typhoons to ever hit the Korean Peninsula has left five people dead and three injured in North Korea, state media reported yesterday.
Typhoon Lingling made landfall in the country a day earlier. Before reaching the North, the storm hit South Korea, killing three people and injuring 13 others.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the typhoon left 460 houses and 15 public buildings destroyed, damaged or flooded in the country. It said 46,200 hectares of farmland were buried or flooded.
Recovery work was under way in devastated areas, it said.
AND Bosnia’s capital city saw its first LGBT Pride parade held yesterday amid heavy security.
More than 1000 police were deployed in Sarajevo where hundreds marched, singing and waving rainbow flags. About a mile away, dozens of followers of a conservative Islamic group held a rally against the parade.
Extremists and hooligans in the past have attacked two LGBT events in Sarajevo, fuelling fears of violence ahead of this event.
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