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Mandela remains in stable but critical condition: South Africa government

Photographers take pictures in front of a poster of anti-apartheid leader and former president Nelson Mandela during a news conference with the cast of the biographical film "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, November 2, 2013. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

(Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who was hospitalized for nearly three months earlier this year with a lung infection, remains in stable but critical condition, the government said on Monday.

Photographers take pictures in front of a poster of anti-apartheid leader and former president Nelson Mandela during a news conference with the cast of the biographical film “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, November 2, 2013. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

“The health of the former President remains much the same … which is stable but critical,” the government said in a statement, adding that the 95-year-old continued to respond to treatment.

(Reporting by David Dolan; Editing by Ed Cropley)

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