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Mutale Pamela Kapekele

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Mutale Pamela Kapekele

When the body of Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda was returned to Zambia last year, it should have led to closure for his grieving family. Instead, the controversy surrounding his death on the battlefield in Ukraine has only deepened.

Slain Zambian man’s family ‘not convinced’ remains from Russia are his

The coffin contained pieces of bones assembled into a skeleton and a DNA test carried out in South Africa is inconclusive

  • Mutale Pamela Kapekele
1 min read
When the body of Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda was returned to Zambia last year, it should have led to closure for his grieving family. Instead, the controversy surrounding his death on the battlefield in Ukraine has only deepened.
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The Zambian student who died on the Russian front line

Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda was serving a nine-year prison sentence in Russia. So how did he end up dying in combat in Ukraine?

  • Mutale Pamela Kapekele
4 min read