Raila Odinga buried after state funeral amid chaotic memorials

Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga was buried on Sunday at his ancestral home in Bondo after a state funeral that was marred by chaotic scenes during several public viewings in Nairobi and Kisumu earlier in the week. Odinga, 80, who died on Wednesday while receiving medical treatment in India, was accorded full military honours at ceremonies that drew tens of thousands of mourners, senior officials and foreign dignitaries.

Odinga’s body was repatriated to Nairobi on Thursday and lay in state at Parliament before a formal state funeral service at Nyayo National Stadium on Friday. Several memorial events that followed descended into disorder as huge crowds surged at viewing sites and attempts to breach VIP areas triggered a heavy security response. Rights groups, police and aid organisations reported multiple deaths and hundreds of injuries over the course of the four-day mourning period.

Witnesses and officials said security forces fired warning shots and used tear gas to disperse surging crowds at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, where some accounts said live ammunition was used. An aid group, Doctors Without Borders, said two people were killed and more than 160 injured at the...