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11/18/2004:

"Africa hails Arafat's principles"

AFRICA has hailed the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as a visionary and a politician of great international authority who saw the African and Palestinian people's common struggle against the apartheid regime of South Africa and the Zionist state of Israel as inseparable.

Leaders from the whole continent rallied solidly behind the Palestinians in their hour of grief and expressed hope that the dream of a free Palestine would eventually be realised.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe — a long-time ally of Arafat — described the Palestinian leader as a revolutionary and a legend who inspired many liberation movements particularly in Third World countries.

Full Article : zimbabweherald.com