Ex Mozambique leader wins prize
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Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano wins a new Â£2.5m prize for African excellence in leadership.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 22 -- Former Mozambique president Joaquim Chissano on Monday won a $5 million leadership prize that promoters hope will encourage other African heads of state to rule wisely, without overstaying their welcomes.
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A new foundation devoted to improving African governance awarded an audacious inaugural prize to Joaquim A. Chissano, Mozambiqueâs second president.
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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, received her award Friday to the beat of drums and
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The 2004 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Wangari Maathai. The African native is an environmentalist and human rights campaigner.
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Mozambique used canoes and helicopters to ferry ballot papers to remote rural districts for Wednesday&#39;s election to pick a successor to President Joaquim Chissano who spent 18 years in office.
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Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus, often called the banker to the poor, received the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday for his efforts to relieve poverty as a cornerstone for building peace.
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Former UN secretary general to name head of state chosen as inaugural winner of multi-million dollar prize for achievement.
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Mozambique&#39;s ruling Frelimo party and its presidential candidate have won a landslide victory in elections held earlier this month.
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Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Darfur human rights activist Mossaad Mohamed Ali won the Olof Palme Prize on Tuesday for their work to protect human rights, peace and security.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Kenyan tree planter and government minister Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, Agence France-Presse said.
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OSLO -- The first African woman and the first Kenyan to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, received her award yesterday to the beat of drums and dancers that broke with the usual stodgy ceremony.
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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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Mozambique's winning presidential candidate Armando Guebuza urges the opposition to work with him.
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A leading South African anti-apartheid campaigner jailed for fraud is handed a presidential pardon.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai has become the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for aiding the continent&#39;s poor with a campaign to plant millions of trees to slow down deforestation.
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Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan who created a women&#39;s movement which has planted more than 30m trees in 20 countries, became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize yesterday.