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Kenya allows opposition figures to fly to Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai buried amid rivalry in MDC
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Kenyan officials have allowed two opposition supporters to fly to Zimbabwe after detaining them at an airport overnight. More than 5,000 people have attended the burial of Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in his home village after he died of colon cancer.
Senator James Orengo and financier Jimi Wanjigi planned to attend opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's burial. The burial was marred by divisions in the party he formed and led, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
But officials said the pair failed to present a court order overturning an existing suspension of their passports. Crowds booed two leaders challenging the appointment of Nelson Chamisa as the party's acting president.
Both men support Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who named himself "the people's president" last month. Mr Tsvangirai, a fierce opponent of Zanu-PF's 37-year rule, died of colon cancer on 14 February aged 65.
There is growing concern that the government is ignoring civil liberties in response to the mock inauguration of Mr Odinga. Kenya's main opposition leader Raila Odinga attended the burial, having previously hailed Mr Tsvangirai as someone who fought for "justice for his country and his people despite the firm hands of dictatorship that held sway".
Unlike Mr Orengo and Mr Wanjigi, Mr Odinga was allowed to fly to Zimbabwe, without any difficulties, for the burial of Mr Tsvangirai, his long-time friend. Kenya's immigration department had barred two allies of Mr Odinga, Senator James Orengo and businessman Jimi Wanjigi, from flying to Zimbabwe for the burial, saying the pair had failed to present a court order overturning a suspension of their passports.
The Zimbabwean politician died of colon cancer on 14 February, and thousands of people are expected to attend his interment in his home village of Buhera. The department later reversed its decision.
Kenyan immigration officials had held Mr Orengo and Mr Wanjigi at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport overnight on Monday after they failed to present a court order authorising them to fly. Mr Tsvangirai was lowered to his final resting place, beside his first wife Susan, in Buhera, some 200km (124 miles) from the capital, Harare.
"When the two arrived at the airport, they were requested to avail copies of the said court orders but they had none," the director of immigration services said. "Instead, they showed some writings on their phones purporting to be court orders." Even in grief, the tensions within the MDC are apparent, as rival factions battle for control of the party, reports the BBC's Shingai Nyoka from Harare.
On Tuesday, Mr Kihalangwa tweeted that the court orders had finally arrived and the men had been allowed to travel. MDC vice-president Thokozani Khupe and secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora were booed by some mourners for opposing Mr Chamisa's appointment as acting party leader.
Mr Orengo has disputed Mr Kihalangwa's timeline, saying that immigration officials received the court order on Monday night. Some believe the MDC could split following Mr Tsvangirai's death, while others say it could re-energise itself under a new leadership, our correspondent says.
He and Mr Wanjigi are due to leave for Zimbabwe later on Tuesday. Zimbabwe is due to hold general elections later this year, the first since President Emmerson Mnangagwa forced long-time ruler Robert Mugabe to step down in November.
In recent weeks, the Kenyan government has been cracking down on supporters of Mr Odinga. Mr Tsvangirai's career was marked by a long political struggle against Mr Mugabe. He was beaten and imprisoned numerous times.
Earlier this month they deported his close aide Miguna Miguna, saying that he did not hold a Kenyan passport. In the 2008 election, Mr Tsvangirai gained the most votes in the first round but not enough to win outright.
The government also took three television stations off air ahead of Mr Odinga's mock swearing-in, and kept the channels suspended in defiance of a court order overturning the ban. Before the second round of voting, Mr Mugabe's security forces carried out a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, and Mr Tsvangirai withdrew.
Mr Mugabe was declared the winner, but an international outcry over allegations of violence and vote-rigging led to a power sharing agreement in which Mr Tsvangirai would serve as prime minister.
Mr Tsvangirai ran against Mr Mugabe again in 2013 but lost by a landslide.