Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has accorded that country's former Vice President Guy Scott, who died on Wednesday, a five-day period of national mourning.

The 82-year-old Zambian-born Guy Lindsay Scott was at some point the first and only white president of an independent African country.

Botswana's President Duma Boko has announced a three-day mourning period following the death of the country's third President, Festus Mogae. 

Mogae died in his residency in Gaborone yesterday.