December 10, 2012.
From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Samantha Moolman.
Making headlines:

The South African government says former President Nelson Mandela’s condition is comfortable in hospital.

The Doha climate talks throw a lifeline to the Kyoto Protocol.

And, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe promises to fight like a 'wounded beast' in an upcoming election.

Former South African president Nelson Mandela spent a second day in a Pretoria military hospital on Sunday for medical tests. The government said the anti-apartheid leader's condition was comfortable.

An official statement announced that President Jacob Zuma visited the 94-year-old over the weekend. The statement provided no other details of the health of South Africa's first black president, who came to power after historic all-race elections in 1994.

On Saturday, Zuma's office said there was no cause for alarm and that the medical treatment Mandela was receiving in the military hospital in the capital was "consistent with his age".

Almost 200 nations extended a weakened United Nations plan for combating global warming until 2020 on Saturday with a modest set of measures that would do nothing to halt rising world greenhouse gas emissions.

Many countries and environmentalists said the deal at the end of marathon two-week UN talks in OPEC-member Qatar would fail to slow rising temperatures or avert more floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels.

Environment ministers extended until 2020 the Kyoto Protocol, which obliges about 35 industrialised nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions until the end of 2012. That keeps the pact alive as the sole legally binding climate plan.

Zimbabwe's long-serving President Robert Mugabe vowed to fight like a wounded beast to retain power in elections due next year after his party formally endorsed him on Saturday as candidate despite his advanced age and reports of ill health.

Mugabe, who turns 89 years next February, has ruled the former British colony since independence in 1980 but denies he has been receiving treatment for prostate cancer in Singapore over the last two years.

Closing a two-day ZANU-PF annual conference that, as expected, named him as its top candidate for a presidential and parliamentary poll that must be held by next September, Mugabe urged his party to overcome the rival Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

The veteran leader said ZANU-PF had nearly lost power by under-estimating its rivals. Mugabe now shares power with Tsvangirai in an uneasy coalition following a disputed election in 2008 which was marred by violence blamed on ZANU-PF militants.

Also making headlines:

Ghana’s incumbent leader John Dramani Mahama wins the recent election, but the opposition cries foul.

And, a poll reveals that half of ANC supporters are worried about the party.

That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.