The soccer stadium was also the spot where Mandela made his last public appearance at the closing ceremony of the 2010 World Cup. After the memorial, his body will lie in state fo ...

President Barack Obama praised the life of Nelson Mandela on Thursday, moments after South African President Zuma announced the international civil rights icon passed away at age 95. “He achieved more ...

During Tuesday's memorial service at South Africa's largest soccer stadium, President Obama delivered a 20-minute eulogy that compared Mandela to Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln and ...

US President Barack Obama delivers a speech during the memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg to on December 10, 2013. Mandela, the ...

Although Obama shied away from direct comparisons, he often said how much Mandela influenced him. Obama said he first got into political action through the anti-apartheid protests when he was a ...

US President Barack Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron and Ireland's Taoiseach Enda Kenny have led tributes to South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95. Mr Cameron ...

US President Barack Obama looks out the window from the cell where Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid legend, was once jailed on Robben Island, on June 30, 2013. Paying homage to the 94-year-old former ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America's first black president, Barack Obama, hailed Nelson Mandela on Thursday as a source of personal inspiration whose struggle against racism in South Africa jump-started ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — 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 ...

Former US president Barack Obama will deliver the annual Nelson Mandela memorial lecture at a 4,000-capacity arena in Johannesburg in July, South African organisers announced on Monday. Obama, who met ...

In South Africa, Obama family meets Nelson Mandela: Michelle Obama heard stories of South Africa’s racist past Tuesday from Nelson Mandela, the country’s first black president, who was imprisoned for ...