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malaise

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Sun Dec 26, 2021, 01:05 PM Dec 2021

President Obama on Desmond Tutu

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59796159


Former US President Barack Obama has joined the tributes being paid to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has died aged 90.
Mr Obama described the churchman as "a mentor, friend and moral compass".
A contemporary of Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu was one of the driving forces behind the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he had helped bequeath "a liberated South Africa".
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