Mandela's grandson reveals
mother also died from AIDS
QUNU - The grandson of Nelson Mandela heeded the former president's call for more openness about the AIDS epidemic on Saturday, revealing that his mother had died from the virus that also killed his father.
Mandla Mandela revealed the cause of his mother's death in a speech to mourners at the funeral for his father, Makgatho Mandela, who had been the last surviving son of the anti-apartheid icon.
Some 4,000 people attended the funeral at the former president's Eastern Cape home.
Makgatho Mandela's family had refused to disclose the nature of his illness when he went into intensive care at a Johannesburg hospital late last year, underscoring the secrecy in South Africa still shrouding a disease that kills 600 people here every day.
BELGIUM
Translation expenses for EU
are set to top $1 billion a year
BRUSSELS - Translation costs at the European Union are set to exceed a billion dollars a year as the economic bloc struggles to accommodate 10 new members after its expansion into Eastern Europe and the Baltics, officials said.
The 10 new members that joined in May expanded the EU to 25 and added nine new languages for a total of 20. The overall costs will rise to $1.06 billion per year from about $720 million now, according to European Commission documents published Friday.
Together, funding this unique system will take almost $2.62 out of the pocket of every EU citizen every year.
SUDAN
Rebels open parts of Darfur
to allow for vaccinations
Rebels opened sections of Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region this past week to allow health workers to vaccinate children younger than 5 years old against polio, the paralyzing illness that re-emerged in Africa's largest country last year in the midst of civil war.
The United Nations children fund, UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the Sudanese Health Ministry began a three-day campaign that aims to inoculate 6 million children against the virus throughout Sudan.
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Brian Mac Intyre was a reporter in his native Dublin. bmac@sltrib.com
