BUKWO, Sept 14 — Uganda today will lay to rest Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who died earlier this month after her partner set her on fire in the latest incident of horrific...
‘Islam under threat’ in Malaysia? DPM Zahid’s religious adviser says to compare unity govt’s firm responses and PAS’ rhetoric to know truthActivists and athletes carry a banner as they march through Eldoret, western Kenya, on September 13, 2024, to demonstrate against the murder of women in Kenya after Rebecca Cheptegei lost her life.
Rain fell as the athlete’s body crossed the Kenya-Uganda border late yesterday afternoon ahead of the funeral in the family’s village of Bukwo, some 380 kilometres northeast of Uganda’s capital Kampala. Her family say the couple had argued over ownership of the property where she lived with her sister Dorcas Cherop and daughters.“I think at that time, their relationship had become sour,” Cheptegei’s brother-in-law, Moses Kipsiro, told AFP.
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