A state ceremony for slain Congolese President laurent-desire Kabila will be held in Kinshasa next Tuesday, following a private service at Lubumbashi, in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic`s diplomat to the United Nations said. Charge d`affaires Atoki Ileka on Thursday told AFP that Kabila`s remains are to be transferred on Saturday from Harare to Lubumbashi, where a private ceremony organised by his family will be held.
The body will then be flown to Kinshasa on Sunday where it will lie in state until the official funeral at the marble palace, according to Ileka. The Democratic Republic of Congo declared a 30-day period of mourning after a government spokesman announced that Kabila had died on Thursday, two days after being shot, at his presidential palace in Kinshasa. Bureau Report