Global Week in Review: Nelson Mandela's Family Visits Him in Hospital
Plus, a Black socialite becomes British royalty.
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Family Visits Ailing Nelson Mandela in Hospital - Former South African President Nelson Mandela was visited by his first wife Winnie Mandela earlier this week at a Pretoria hospital. His daughter Zenani Dlamini, a South African ambassador in Argentina, also flew in to spend time with the 94-year-old political icon. The government recently reported that Mandela was in serious but stable condition. (Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
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Britain’s First Black Marchioness - Emma McQuiston recently tied the knot with Viscount Weymouth Ceawlin Thynn (not pictured), the future Marquess of Bath, making the actress and food blogger Great Britain's first Black Marchioness. McQuiston, daughter of a Nigerian oil tycoon, told the press she believed her race played a key factor in her in-laws’ absence from the wedding. (Photo: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images)
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U.K. Announces Payments to Mistreated Kenyans - More than 5,200 Kenyans have been granted compensation amounting to almost $31 million for abuses suffered during a rebellion against colonial rule. "The elderly victims of torture now at last have the recognition and justice they have sought for many years," said a lawyer for the Kenyans.(Photo: AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Millions Needed to Save Mali’s Damaged Cultural Heritage - Having been severely damaged by Islamist militants, Mali's ancient city of Timbuktu will require about $11 million to salvage. “What has been destroyed has been destroyed definitively. It is a part of us that's gone and we need to recharge ourselves, morally speaking, to come to terms with what has happened," Mali’s Minister of Culture Bruno Maiga reportedly said.(Photo: HABIBOU KOUYATE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Nigeria Tops List of Children Without School - A new UN report revealed that more children miss school in Nigeria than in any other country. As of 2011, at least 57 million children around the world lacked access to schools, a slight improvement from approximately 61 million in 2010. Five other African countries, including Kenya and Burkina Faso, were also on the list.(Photo: REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye)
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African Warlord Joseph Kony Poaches Elephants for Resources - To finance their weapons, ammunition and food, Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army militia have been killing elephants for ivory, according to a recent report. "Governments in Asia and elsewhere who fail to regulate the illegal ivory trade share responsibility for atrocities committed by the LRA and other armed groups engaged in poaching," Kasper Agger, a co-author of the report, told CNN. (Photo: AP Photo/Stuart Price, File, Pool)
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World’s First Tablet Café Debuts in Africa - Watch out, desktops and laptops. Tablets have been tapped to replace their earlier counterparts at the world's first tablet cafe. Located in Dakar, Senegal, Equinoxe Cyber Cafe received funding from Google in 2012 to host the American corporation’s pilot project.(Photo: SEYLLOU/AFP/Getty Images)
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Togo Football Players Withdraw From Cup Qualifier in Libya - Alaixys Romao and Jonathan Ayite of Togo’s national football team have decided to forgo the World Cup qualifier in Libya, insisting the game should be moved to a neutral site. A deadly 2010 attack on the team’s bus in Angola influenced the players’ withdrawals. (Photos from left: Ian Walton/Getty Images, FRED TANNEAU/AFP/GettyImages)
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Ghana Jails Chinese Nationals for Illegal Gold Mining - Ghanaian police officials detained more than 160 Chinese nationals in a national crackdown on illegal gold mining. Each detainee will reportedly face a fine and deportation. Locals have also attributed the growing problem to polluted water supplies and land conflicts.(Photo: REUTERS/Kwasi Kpodo)
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Report Calls Out Zimbabwean Security Forces Ahead of Elections - The international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch called for security reforms for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe. In a 44-page report, the organization claimed that “Zimbabwe’s security forces, notably the military, have, for several years, interfered in the nation’s political and electoral affairs in ways that have adversely affected the ability of Zimbabwean citizens to vote freely."(Photo: REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)
