S.Africa's Mandela gets top Amnesty Int'l award
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Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela   will be awarded Amnesty International's "Ambassador of   Conscience" award, the highest honor given by the global human   rights watchdog, Amnesty said on Tuesday.
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Britain honored Nelson Mandela on Wednesday by unveiling a bronze statue of South Africa's first black president alongside those of statesmen such as Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan who created a women&#39;s movement which has planted more than 30m trees in 20 countries, became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize yesterday.
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Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano wins a new Â£2.5m prize for African excellence in leadership.
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South Africa and the world must strive to uphold Nelson Mandela&#39;s legacy as a peacemaker as the anti-apartheid icon enters his dotage, former US president Bill Clinton said on Thursday.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela announced Wednesday a giant benefit concert in London next June to promote his 46664 campaign against HIV/AIDS.
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Britain honored Nelson Mandela on  Wednesday by unveiling a bronze statue of South Africa&#39;s first  black president alongside those of statesmen such as Winston  Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - South African President  Thabo Mbeki vowed Friday to step up the battle against  HIV/AIDS, saying his government's program was among the world's  best.
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South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela has praised Jacob Zuma, the newly elected leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), as a man who could unify the divided party.
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South Africa begins a nationwide amnesty for gun owners in an attempt to cut high crime levels.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, better the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize since it was first awarded in 1901...
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BERLIN, Feb 12 (IPS) - The 57th International Film Festival in Berlin has  got off to a strong start with the South  African film Goodbye  Bafana on Nelson Mandela's long incarceration emerging as an  early  front-runner for honours. In all 26 movies are chasing the  top Golden Bear award.
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WASHINGTON: The United States praised South Africa on Friday for acting against alleged Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khanâs secret nuclear network after a businessman was charged in South Africa with nuclear trafficking.
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Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African leadership.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has agreed to visit London in February to help jumpstart London's proposal for a "new Marshall Plan" to help ease African nations' chronic poverty, the British ...
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai  became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on  Friday, honored for aiding democracy and seeking to save the  continent's shrinking forests.
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Actress Jennifer Lopez is honoured by human rights group Amnesty International for her latest film.