Raila Odinga's farewell in Kisumu: 'We are orphans' cry Kenyan mourners

Kisumu mourners flock to see Raila Odinga's body as Barack Obama remembers "a true champion of democracy".

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"I have come here to mourn an icon of Africa," one mourner Dixon Ochieng told the BBC.

The public viewing of the revered 80-year-old, who died at an Indian hospital on Wednesday, has now concluded and his body has been flown to his farm for burial.

His widow Ida has appealed to those gathered there to grieve in a calm manner to avoid the chaos that led to the deaths of at least five mourners at other events and left dozens injured at the Kisumu stadium earlier.

Odinga has a devotional following in his political heartland in the west of the country - and before dawn people, old and young, began arriving in Kisumu, which lies on the shores of Lake Victoria.