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South Africa at crossroads as Mandela hospitalized

by Jon Gambrell
Associated Press Writer

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela is "doing very, very well" while undergoing unspecified medical tests at a military hospital, the nation's defense minister said Monday. The office of the presidency said the anti-apartheid icon was being kept in the hospital for a third day for more tests.

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COUNTRY WORRIES--A newspaper vendor sells Sunday newspapers reporting on former South African President, Nelson Mandela, in Johannesburg Sunday Dec. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Last Updated on Friday, 28 December 2012 08:59

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Coup era over, Ghana showcases African democracy

by Laura Burke

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GOVERNMENT COUP—In this Feb. 28, 1966 file photo, students of the Ghanian trades union congress heap communist and Pro-Kwame Nkrumah magazines and newspapers onto a bonfire outside Congress House in Accra, Ghana in the wake of the overthrow of Nkrumah’s government during the week of Feb. 20, 1966. (AP Photo)

ACCRA, Ghana (AP)—The year was 1966 and a 7-year-old boy named John Dramani Mahama was standing by the door of his boarding school, wondering why his father wasn’t there to fetch him. The Easter holiday was approaching, classes were done, and everyone else had left.

Last Updated on Friday, 28 December 2012 08:59

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Shot by Taliban, Pakistani schoolgirl can stand, communicate

by Laura Smith-Spark
For New Pittsburgh Courier

LONDON (CNN)—There were tears of joy when Malala Yousufzai's family reunited with her for the first time since she was flown to a British hospital for treatment, her father said Friday.

“In the condition when I saw my daughter...we were hopeful but we did not expect...that she can talk, that she can see,” Ziauddin Yousufzai said.

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ON THE MEND—Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai stood for the first time after her shooting on Oct. 19. Malala couldn’t talk because she had a tracheotomy tube inserted to protect her airway, which was swollen after her gunshot injury, was writing coherent sentences, Dr. Dave Rosser, Medical Director at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, told the press.The infection she had is now gone. (CNN Photo/Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, U.K.)

Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 20:13

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Kenya village pairs AIDS orphans with grandparents

by Jason Straziuso
Associated Press Writer

NYUMBANI, Kenya (AP) — There are no middle-aged people in Nyumbani. They all died years ago, before this village of hope in Kenya began. Only the young and old live here.

Nyumbani was born of the AIDS crisis. The 938 children here all saw their parents die. The 97 grandparents — eight grandfathers among them — saw their middle-aged children die. But put together, the bookend generations take care of one another.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, young schoolboys walk home at the end of the school day in the yard of the Hot Courses Primary School, in the village of Nyumbani which caters to children who lost their parents to HIV, and grandparents who lost their children to HIV, with the bookend generations taking care of one another, in Kenya. Saturday, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day, and UNAIDS says that as of 2011 an estimated 23.5 million people living with HIV resided in sub-Saharan Africa, representing 69 percent of the global HIV burden, with eastern and southern Africa the hardest-hit regions. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Last Updated on Friday, 28 December 2012 08:59

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Jamaica introduces Garveyism in classrooms

by David McFadden

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP)—Struggling with a chronically stagnant economy and one of the highest crime rates in the world, Jamaica is turning for help to a Black nationalist leader who died more than 70 years ago.

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BLACK NATIONALIST LEADER—In this August 1922 file photo, Marcus Garvey is shown in a military uniform as the “Provisional President of Africa” during a parade in the opening day of the annual Convention of the Negro Peoples of the World at Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City. (AP Photo/File)

Marcus Garvey, who inspired millions of followers worldwide with messages of Black pride and self-reliance, is being resurrected in a new mandatory civics program in schools across this predominantly Black country of 2.8 million people.

Students from kindergarten through high school are supposed to learn values such as self-esteem, respect for others and personal responsibility by studying Garvey, whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “first man on a mass scale and level to give Negroes a sense of dignity and destiny.”

Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 20:13

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