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Article: VOA NEWS: ZIMBABWE'S UNRESOLVED CRISIS LOOMS OVER MWANAWASA FUNERAL
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 3, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Blessing Zulu
Zimbabwe's unresolved political crisis loomed large Wednesday as African leaders gathered in Lusaka, Zambia, for the funeral of President Levy Mwanawasa, who died on August 19 in Paris at the age of 59 after suffering a stroke in June at an African Union summit in Egypt.
Mr. Mwanawasa was laid to rest on the day he would have turned 60.
South African President Thabo Mbeki delivered the principal eulogy at the state funeral, calling Mr. Mwanawasa's passing a great loss to Africa.
Zambian Information Minister Mike Mulongoti told reporter Blessing Zulu of VOA's Studio 7 for Zimbabwe that Mwanawasa was honored by colleagues in ...