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In South Africa, Obama pays tribute to ailing Mandela, but tries to focus on economic message

YoopyaJun 29, 2013August 10, 20240

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Paying tribute to his personal hero, President Barack Obama met privately Saturday with Nelson Mandela’s family as the world anxiously awaited news

South Africa: Family visits critically ill Mandela

YoopyaJun 28, 2013August 4, 20240

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Members of Nelson Mandela’s family as well as South African Cabinet ministers have visited the hospital where the 94-year-old former president is

Clashes as Egypt leader’s backers, foes rally

YoopyaJun 28, 2013August 4, 20240

CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of backers and opponents of Egypt’s Islamist president held competing rallies in the capital Friday and new clashes erupted between the

Obama yet to have African legacy like predecessors

YoopyaJun 28, 2013August 4, 20240

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — President Barack Obama is receiving the embrace you might expect for a long-lost son on his return to his father’s home

In Africa, Obama lauds democracy but urges progress on gay rights

YoopyaJun 27, 2013August 4, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama, kicking off a long-awaited African tour, lauded a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage as a victory for democracy and

No sign of cyber leaker Snowden on flight to Cuba

YoopyaJun 27, 2013August 4, 20240

(Reuters) – A Russian passenger plane left Moscow for Havana on Thursday without any sign of former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden on board,

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YoopyaJun 27, 2013August 4, 20240

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Obama sees a hopeful democratic example in Senegal

YoopyaJun 27, 2013April 9, 20230

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The hopeful story President Barack Obama wants to tell about Africa is represented in the first stop of his weeklong trip

South Africa waits after Mandela’s condition worsens

YoopyaJun 27, 2013April 9, 20230

(Reuters) – South Africans prepared on Thursday to say farewell to ailing anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela after his condition deteriorated further in hospital, forcing President

Mugabe heads to Singapore for health check before vote

YoopyaJun 26, 2013August 4, 20240

(Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe left for a medical check-up in Singapore on Tuesday, his spokesman said, a month before an election in which