"Mandela’s Condition Is Reported to Deteriorate to ‘Critical’"

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Mandela’s Condition Is Reported to Deteriorate to ‘Critical’

By DECLAN WALSH at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/world/africa/mandelas-condition-now-said-to-be-critical.html?smid=tw-share

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Media reports claiming that Mr. Mandela had suffered a cardiac arrest on that same night contained “no truth,” he added.

At the Pretoria hospital on Sunday, Mr. Zuma also met with Mr. Mandela’s wife, Graça Machel. Mr. Zuma appealed to South Africans and people across the world to pray for “Madiba, his family and the medical team that is attending to him during this difficult time.”

News of his deterioration comes as President Obama prepares to leave on Wednesday for a short tour of Africa.

In South Africa, where Mr. Obama is due to arrive on Friday, he had planned to visit Mr. Mandela, opening the prospect of a meeting between the first black presidents of South Africa and the United States. American officials now say that such a meeting would depend on Mr. Mandela’s health and his family’s wishes.

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1. I thought there was a little more information in this report than

the one I posted last night. So I put it up.