Tens of thousands of people mourning the death of former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga have filed past his open coffin at a stadium in his home city of Kisumu – many crying out the phrase “we are orphans” in their grief.
“I have come here to mourn an icon of Africa,” one mourner Dixon Ochieng told the BBC.
The public viewing of the revered 80-year-old, who died at an Indian hospital on Wednesday, has now concluded and his body has been flown to his farm for burial.
His widow Ida has appealed to those gathered there to grieve in a calm manner to avoid the chaos that led to the deaths of at least five mourners at other events and left dozens injured at the Kisumu stadium earlier.
