Nelson Mandela says its the modern slavery. Thousands have...
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What does it take? A fireside chat from Nelson Mandela doesnt work. The pleas of pop icons like Bono fall on deaf ears.
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The average African is worse off now than during the colonial era, says the brother of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki.
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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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South Africa should be worried by the huge numbers of skilled white people leaving the country, the opposition says.
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DROWNING IN DEBT: African nations say debt incurred by past generations is keeping them poor and unable to cope with pressing needs, such as the AIDS epidemic.
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PRETORIA : Hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses, police and other public sector employees walked off the job across South Africa to demand better wages in one of the biggest strikes since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
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Nelson Mandela urges world leaders not to "look the other way" on poverty at a rally in Trafalgar Square.
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Nelson Mandela has launched a new  project to get people actively involved in fighting AIDS in  South Africa, one of the country's hardest hit by the epidemic,  his charitable foundation said on Monday.
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President Ricardo Lagos on Sunday said he planned to compensate thousands of people who were imprisoned and tortured under the regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
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The NZ Herald has the story.  More coverage can be found by performing a Google News search for "un congo sex abuse".    Details of the story include the fact that over 150 counts by at least 30 staff members are being investigated, and that this isn't the first time that the U.N. has been so accused.
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Thousands of mourners are expected to join Nelson Mandela at the funeral of his son, Makgatho.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki says developing countries must unite and fight their corner.
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Nelson Mandela is hailed a "liberator of people", as a statue is unveiled in central London.
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Thousands of women marked the 50th anniversary of a famed anti-apartheid demonstration with celebrations Wednesday soured by the reality that poverty, AIDS and crime have replaced political oppression as the scourge of South Africa.
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Slavery is booming in South Asia, with  hundreds of thousands of women and children being trafficked  and sold or forced into the sex trade or domestic service each  year, UNICEF warned on Wednesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have stayed away from work, in what could be the biggest strike in South Africaâs history.
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PARIS, Nov 11 (IPS) - Nelson Mandela spoke for much of the world when he  praised Yasser Arafat in the preface of a biography as a leader  who âtransformed the Palestinians' status from that of  refugees to that of a nation in the most complete sense of the  term.â