Mozambique's ex president wins $5M prize
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Mozambique's former President Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African leadership.
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Both the main candidates in Mozambique&#39;s presidential elections, the general secretary of the ruling Frelimo Party, Armando Guebuza, and the leader of the former rebel movement Renamo, Afonso Dhlakama, expressed confidence in victory when speaking to
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She was cited for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa. Professor Wangari is the seventh African to win the prize, worth $1.
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African nations and citizens to date raise $5m to help the tens of thousands affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Sierra Leone opposition leader Ernest Bai Koroma has won the West African country's presidential election, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) said on Monday.
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Former President Fernando Collor de Mello, forced from office in a corruption scandal in 1992 and barred from politics for eight years, has won a seat in Brazil's Senate, electoral officials said Monday.
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The son of Kenya's first president wins the battle for control of the former ruling party, Kanu, amid claims of fraud.
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Wangari Muta Maathai, founder of Africa&#39;s Green Belt Movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, becoming the first African woman to win the world&#39;s most prestigious civilian honor.
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The State Department's rewarding of one individual $5 million has received enough criticisms to warrant a reader vote.
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Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize today for her work as leader of an organization that has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa.
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Mozambique's former president Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace and democracy to his country, won the first Mo Ibrahim Prize Monday for achievement in African leadership
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Mozambique&#39;s outgoing leader Joaquim Chissano has said that turnout would be higher if people were paid to vote. He was speaking after a low turnout in general elections and said people may not believe they gain by voting.
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday congratulated Wangari Maathai, the assistant minister for environment and natural resources, for becoming the first African woman to win
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Maputo - The former rebel organisation Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo) on Friday claimed there were gross irregularities during elections on Wednesday and Thursday to choose a successor to long-serving president Joaquim Chissano.
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Mozambique&#39;s governing party, Frelimo, and its presidential candidate, Armando Guebuza, appeared Saturday to be headed for an unexpectedly sweeping victory in the nation&#39;s
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IHURURU, Kenya - When Wangari Maathai got word she had won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, she was campaigning to protect Kenya's forests and distributing food to villagers suffering from drought - the same work she's been doing for decades.    Maathai was in the countryside - just one hill away from her childhood home - when told she had won the $1.3 million prize, joining a club that includes Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan and the Dalai Lama...
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Botswana, which has the largest elephant population in Africa, will donate 500 animals to Mozambique, conservationists and Mozambican officials said Friday.