Former American President Jimmy Carter.
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The motivations for Carter’s interest in Africa are deeply personal. His record should remind all democrats, including those in Africa, to hold leaders accountable to high ethical standards.
Activists gather in front of Tel Aviv’s Embassy of Egypt to demonstrate in support of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah.
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Many people accept the Egyptian government’s restrictions on freedoms, for a variety of conflicting reasons.
Former South African President FW de Klerk photographed in Pretoria in 1989.
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FW de Klerk as National Party conservative was paradoxically the right leader at the right time to relinquish white minority rule.
When the reporter becomes the story.
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two courageous journalists who have faced repression and death by doing their work.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 86th birthday and the unveiling of an arch in his honour outside St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town.
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Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu embraces everything noble in Aristotelian virtue ethics and African philosophical systems alike.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu ‘s deep spirituality drove him to fight for freedom and justice.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu is first and foremost, a spiritual leader, a man of deep prayer. This motivated his participation in supporting South Africa’s liberation struggle.