Mugabe’s kin agree to burial at ‘heroes’ monument

Harare: The family of former Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe have agreed to bury him at a monument for national heroes in Harare, the family said on Friday, though the date for the ceremony remained unclear. Mugabe died in Singapore last week aged 95. Once lauded as an anti-colonial guerrilla hero, Mugabe’s 37-year iron-fisted rule ended in a coup in 2017. His family and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a former Mugabe ally who turned against him, had been at odds over where he would be buried. AFP

Turkey’s ex-PM resigns from Erdogan’s party  

Ankara: Former PM Ahmet Davutoglu has announced his resignation from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party and plans to form a new political movement Davutoglu resigned on Friday, days after the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, began proceedings to expel him and three former legislators from the party for breach of discipline. The politician served as foreign minister between 2009 and 2014 and later as prime minister until 2016. AP

US civil rights advocate Juanita Abernathy dies at 88 

Washington: Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and took other influential steps in helping to build the American civil rights movement, died on Thursday following complications from a stroke. She was 88. The widow of the Rev. Dr Ralph Abernathy, she worked alongside him and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr and others for the right to vote. She also taught voter education classes, housed Freedom Riders and marched in 1963 seeking passage of what became the Civil Rights Act. AP