Newspapers with front pages depicting South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela are displayed at a vendor’s stand in Ikoyi district in Lagos

Newspapers with front pages depicting South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela are displayed at a vendor’s stand in Ikoyi district in Lagos December 6, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died peacefully at home at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung infection, leaving his nation and the world in mourning for a man revered as a moral giant. The former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate had been frail and ailing for nearly a year with a recurring lung illness that dated back to the 27 years he spent in apartheid jails, including the notorious Robben Island penal colony. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA – Tags: MEDIA OBITUARY POLITICS) – RTX166C6

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