Obama cautions for strange and uncertain times in Mandela tribute

Former US president Barack Obama on Tuesday utilized a tribute to Nelson Mandela to caution of "peculiar and indeterminate circumstances", a day after Donald Trump declined to challenge Vladimir Putin over obstruction in US decisions.

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Conveying a discourse in Johannesburg stamping a long time since Nelson Mandela's introduction to the world, Obama made no immediate reference to his successor however cautioned that the "governmental issues of dread and hatred" were spreading over the world.

Obama scrutinized environmental change deniers, race-based movement arrangements, unbridled free enterprise and "strongman legislative issues" — all issues prone to be viewed as hidden assaults on Trump.