Tanzania ex-leader Mkapa鈥檚 funeral
Mr Mkapa died on Friday after he had a cardiac arrest.
The funeral of Tanzania's former President Benjamin Mkapa took place in his home in Lupaso, in the south of the country.
Mali鈥檚 Prime Minister Boubou Ciss茅 has invited influential imam Mahmoud Dicko to bring his movement into a unity government, in an effort to resolve the ongoing political crisis.
Plus a series looking back at some of Africa's greatest Olympians, today we hear from Francoise Mbango, the first Cameroonian to win an Athletics gold medal.
(Photo: Benjamin Mkapa鈥檚 funeral ceremony. Credit: 麻豆社)
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