Leaders gather to honour Mutharika

Mawawi president Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, who died of a heart attack earlier this month, was buried yesterday after a funeral service that drew African leaders and thousands of Malawian mourners.

Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and Armando Guebuza of Mozambique were among mourners at the Catholic Mass in Blantyre.

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