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MENAFN.COM
March 16, 2018
Banda is the recipient of multiple international awards including the Hunger Project Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger that she shared with President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique in 1997. She was also key in the founding of several organizations including the AfricanÃâà...
CPI Financial
March 14, 2018
Previous winners are Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia (2014), Pedro Pires of Cabo Verde (2011), Festus Mogae of Botswana (2008) and Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique (2007). Nelson Mandela was made the inaugural Honorary Laureate in 2007. The Prize Committee praises Sirleaf's 'exceptionalÃâà...
Independent Online
March 14, 2018
He threatened to end the talks, renege on agreements already reached and “go back to square one”. He said he had once believed that President Filipe Nyusi was better than his predecessors, Joaquim Chissano and Armando Guebuza, but now Nyusi “has disappointed me”. He menaced that if somethingÃâà...
HuffPost UK
March 13, 2018
... respectively Benjamin Mkapa, Festus Mogae and Joaquim Chissano - address the assembled Commonwealth heads of government on why they support LGBT+ rights as human rights. Voices from African ex-leaders and from respected African Christians will be the most impactful and effective. .
defenceWeb
March 3, 2018
Due to the AU's strong historical resistance to its stance, Morocco would rather rely on its allies France and the United States in the UN Security Council than have the AU special envoy Joaquim Chissano try to force it into a corner. Morocco is also expected to resist any mention in AU documents of theÃâà...
Daily Maverick
March 1, 2018
Due to the AU's strong historical resistance to its stance, Morocco would rather rely on its allies France and the United States in the UN Security Council than have the AU special envoy Joaquim Chissano try to force it into a corner. Morocco is also expected to resist any mention in AU documents of theÃâà...
Institute for Security Studies
March 1, 2018
Due to the AU's strong historical resistance to its stance, Morocco would rather rely on its allies France and the United States in the UN Security Council than have the AU special envoy Joaquim Chissano try to force it into a corner. Morocco is also expected to resist any mention in AU documents of theÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
February 22, 2018
Victoria Nyeche, member, Rivers State House of Assembly, representing the good people of Port Harcourt Constituency 1, has congratulated the immediate past President of Liberia and the first female President in Africa, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, for winning the prestigious Mo Ibrahim Award and thusÃâà...
The New Dawn Liberia
February 18, 2018
Mrs. Sirleaf is the fifth winner of the prize since it was first awarded in 2007 to Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano. Other previous winners are Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia (2014), Pedro Pires of Cabo Verde (2011), Festus Mogae of Botswana (2008). The Mo Ibrahim Foundation PrizeÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
February 16, 2018
President Sirleaf, who served two terms as President of Liberia from 2006 to 2017, joins Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia (2014), Pedro Pires of Cabo Verde (2011), Festus Mogae of Botswana (2008) and Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique (2007) as an Ibrahim Prize Laureate. Nelson Mandela was madeÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
February 16, 2018
Since its inception in 2006, President Sirleaf is only the fifth recipient of the prize as few leaders have met the criteria. Past winners include Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia (2014), President Pedro Pires of Cabo Verde (2011), President Festus Mogae of Botswana (2008), and President Joaquim ChissanoÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
February 12, 2018
In 2007 president Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique received the award. In 2008, president Festus Mogae of Botswana won the prize; and in 2011, president Pedro Pires of Cabo Verde picked up the award. The evidence of their good leadership is there to see. Commenting on the fact that Africa has failedÃâà...
CNN
February 12, 2018
Previous winners include former Botswana president Festus Mogae, in 2008 and Mozambique's former president Joaquim Chissano, in 2007. But on six occasions the prize has not been awarded, with no eligible candidate deemed worthy. The London-based foundation awarded the prize last to formerÃâà...
