Luanda – The Vice President of the Republic, Bornito de Sousa, travels this Thursday to Lusaka, Zambia, where he participates in the funeral ceremonies of former president Kenneth David Kaunda.
Bornito de Sousa is representing the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, and has planned official meetings with different entities, with emphasis on the Head of State of Zambia, Edgar Lungu, to whom he should deliver a message from the Angolan President.
Kenneth Kaunda, founding father and first president of the Zambian Republic, deemed a hero of the liberation fight, died at the age of 97, on the 17th of this month, in a military hospital in Lusaka, where he was being treated for pneumonia.
Kenneth Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, when it proclaimed its independence from Britain, until 1991, and has become one of the most committed African activists in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Source: Angola Press News Agency