New Delhi, June 24 -- A legal battle over where former Zambian President Edgar Lungu's remains will be buried is over, more than a year after he died, as South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday in favor of his family and rejected the Zambian government's claim of custody over his body.

The ruling overturned a lower South African court's decision that ordered the family to hand over Lungu's remains to the Zambian government for repatriation.

Lungu died in South Africa on June 5, 2025, at age 68. The Zambian government wanted his body to be buried at a cemetery set aside for the African nation's leaders, but his family preferred to bury him in South Africa.

The dispute saw Lungu's bitter rivalry with political opponent and c...