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Newshour: 01/01/2022 21:06 GMT: Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu laid to rest

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01/01/2022 21:06 GMT: Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu laid to rest

Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu laid to rest

BBC World Service - Newshour, Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu laid to rest

South Africa holds state funeral for anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The funeral service for South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has taken place in Cape Town.

The funeral mass for South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has taken place at the Anglican cathedral in Cape Town.

In his eulogy, the country's president Cyril Ramaphosa described Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end the racist regime in South Africa, as "the spiritual father of our new nation". We'll hear from a priest who came to know Archbishop Tutu over several decades.

Also in the programme: the government of Borno state in Nigeria says it has closed camps housing over a million internally displaced people. And an astonishing story from China: a 37-year-old man who was abducted from his family has found his biological mother again, after drawing a map of his childhood village from memory.

(Picture shows Floral tributes alongside a smiling picture of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Credit: EPA)

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