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                    [Title] => Mandela buried in rolling hills of S Africa
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Anti-apartheid champion Nelson Mandela was buried in his home village on Sunday after a funeral that mixed ancient tribal rituals with a display of the might of the new, integrated South Africa.

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Nelson Mandela was buried yesterday in the African ground he loved after a funeral ceremony that included a 21-gun salute and fly-overs by military aircraft as well as a eulogy by a traditional leader wearing an animal skin.

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South Africans of all races flocked to houses of worship yesterday for a national day of prayer and reflection to honor Nelson Mandela, unified in their love for a historic figure whose funeral is expected to be one of the biggest in modern times.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-09 04:03:17 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1667309 [AuthorName] => Ray Faure and Jon Gambrell [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 960391 [Title] => Obama asserts Mandela's values are Africa's future [Summary] =>

Challenging African youth to seize a "moment of great promise," President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the future of the young and growing continent still rests in ailing South African leader Nelson Mandela's vision for equality and opportunity. Seeking to carve out his own piece of that legacy, Obama unveiled an ambitious initiative to double electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa, vowing to bring "light where there is darkness."

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-01 14:05:46 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1432801 [AuthorName] => Julie Pace [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => https://imageshack.com/scaled/large/59/gh4z.jpg ) ) )
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