BUHERA, Zimbabwe — Thousands of people in Zimbabwe gathered on Tuesday for the burial of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, whose death from cancer exacerbated divisions within a movement preparing for elections just months away. A hearse carrying Tsvangirai’s body in a white casket drove slowly through the crowds to a school ground near his rural home in eastern Zimbabwe. “Our leaders are going to unite,” Nelson Chamisa, the new head of the opposition party, said at the burial. The MDC-T party holds the second-largest number of seats in Zimbabwe’s parliament. Mugabe resigned after a military takeover in November, and his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, says elections will be held as scheduled this year.

Source: National Post February 20, 2018 15:08 UTC