Raila Odinga to attend Morgan Tsvangirai burial

National Super Alliance leader Raila Odinga has left the country to attend the burial of Zimbabwe’s opposition icon Morgan Tsvangirai, who died last Wednesday after a long battle with colon cancer.

In a statement to newsrooms, the NASA leader’s spokesman Dennis Onyango said Odinga left Nairobi for Harare at 1pm on Monday.

“Odinga will then travel to Buhera, some 300 kilometres from Harare where the Movement for Democratic Change leader will be laid to rest on Thursday,” read the statement.

The former Prime Minister and Tsangirai are said to have met in 1993 when Mr. Odinga led an International Republican Institute team to train political parties and civil society in Zimbabwe for the multi-party elections that were approaching then.

At that time, Mr.  Tsvangirai was with Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum; a civil society organization founded in 1992 to ensure that the Zimbabwean citizens are informed about human rights and are empowered to defend their own rights.