Mandela in hospital with infection

Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has been admitted to a hospital with a lung infection.


Mr Mandela is being treated for a "recurrence of his lung infection" and doctors are ensuring he has the best possible treatment.
Mr Mandela has become increasingly frail in recent years.
Mandela has been admitted to hospital several times since last year, most recently earlier this month when he received what a presidential spokesman described as a "successful" medical test.
In December, Mr Mandela spent three weeks in hospital as he was treated for a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones. A year ago, he was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an abdominal complaint. He was discharged days later.
Under South Africa's white-minority apartheid regime, Mandela served 27 years in prison, where he contracted tuberculosis, before being released in 1990. He later became the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 under the banner of the African National Congress, helping to negotiate a relatively peaceful end to apartheid despite fears of much greater bloodshed. He served one five-year term as president before retiring.