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The council of world leaders launched by former South Africa president Nelson Mandela is sending a three-person team to the troubled Middle East.
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, former US president Jimmy Carter and former Irish president Mary Robinson, will visit Israel, the Palestinian territories, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia next month.
The trio would "help people understand the urgency of peace," the organisation known as The Elders said in a statement.
Launched last year to celebrate Mandela's 89th birthday, the group of 12 world leaders is dedicated to fostering peace and resolving global crises.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni met Nelson Mandela during a trip to South Africa on Friday, an encounter that the new first lady described as deeply moving.
Press photographs showed the couple smiling and joking with the anti-apartheid icon on their first joint overseas trip since controversially marrying in secret four weeks ago.
"I have really enjoyed this trip. It was a unique and very moving experience to meet Mr. Mandela and also to visit South Africa," model-turned-singer Bruni told French reporters later.
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Sharp differences are emerging among South Africa's leaders over the deepening Zimbabwe crisis after Nelson Mandela made a thinly-disguised attack on President Robert Mugabe as a "tyrant".
Mandela denounced Mugabe and other power-grabbing African leaders. He said ordinary people should depose tyrants who enriched themselves at the expense of their countrymen by "picking up rifles and fighting for liberation".
Asked by a nosy reporter later whether he was referring to Mugabe, Mandela said: "Everybody here knows who I am talking about. The situation exists in many parts of the world, especially Africa."
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Nelson Mandela, South Africa's most respected international icon - affectionately known by South Africans as "Madiba" - wrapped up a 10-day vacation at the country's Pezula Resort Hotel & Spa on February 14.
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Former first lady of Mozambique and South Africa, Graca Machel, urged Kenyans to avoid the slippery slope toward ethnic chaos.
"Do not let your country go the ethnic way, because if you do, you are going to boil each other. Then there is going to be no country to speak of," she cautioned.
Wife of former president Nelson Mandela, Mrs. Machel is part of the mediation team that includes former Secretary Gen. Kofi Annan, among others.
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