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- Feb 19, 2012
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President Kibaki is among
four African Statesmen
who will receive the
Lifetime Africa
Achievement award.
Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni, the late Ghanaian
President John Atta Mills
and Dr Mohammed Mo
Ibrahim are among the
other winners to be recognised.
The award is organised by
Ghanas Millennium
Excellence Foundation
(MEF).
The ceremony will be held
at the Kenyatta
International Conference
Centre (KICC), Nairobi
Saturday where the
recipients will be officially presented with the
honours at an event to be
televised live in Kenya and
around Africa.
A statement by MEF also
named seven other
recipients of the awards
including businessman
Kamlesh Pattni.
Others expected in Nairobi
to receive the awards are
Egyptian opposition leader
Mohammed El Baradei,
Godswil Apkabio , Kaumbi
Chapwe, Aliko Dangote Laureate Isabel Dos Santos
and Noo Letele.
President Kibaki will be
awarded the prize for
leadership, national
cohesion and stability while
President Museveni has
won the prize in the Nation Building and African
Leadership category.
The late Prof Mills has been
posthumously honoured
under Democratic
Governance and
Development category.
Dr Ibrahim of the Mo
Ibrahim Foundation is the
winner of Action for Africa
prize to recognise his
dedication to democratic
governance in Africa.
This exaltation of
character, which is worthy
of emulation, has made
positive impact on the lives
of his people today and will
continue to sustain them for a better future.
"By dint of his hard work,
foresight and
resourcefulness, the world
is walking up to a new
Africa wherein the
predominant theme in the emerging narrative about
Africa is no longer war,
famine and disease but
rather strong economic
performance, MEF said of
Dr Mo.
Previous winners of the
award include South
African businessman Cyril
Ramaphosa, former UN
Secretary General Dr Kofi
Annan, Nigerian author Wole Soyinka among
others.
four African Statesmen
who will receive the
Lifetime Africa
Achievement award.
Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni, the late Ghanaian
President John Atta Mills
and Dr Mohammed Mo
Ibrahim are among the
other winners to be recognised.
The award is organised by
Ghanas Millennium
Excellence Foundation
(MEF).
The ceremony will be held
at the Kenyatta
International Conference
Centre (KICC), Nairobi
Saturday where the
recipients will be officially presented with the
honours at an event to be
televised live in Kenya and
around Africa.
A statement by MEF also
named seven other
recipients of the awards
including businessman
Kamlesh Pattni.
Others expected in Nairobi
to receive the awards are
Egyptian opposition leader
Mohammed El Baradei,
Godswil Apkabio , Kaumbi
Chapwe, Aliko Dangote Laureate Isabel Dos Santos
and Noo Letele.
President Kibaki will be
awarded the prize for
leadership, national
cohesion and stability while
President Museveni has
won the prize in the Nation Building and African
Leadership category.
The late Prof Mills has been
posthumously honoured
under Democratic
Governance and
Development category.
Dr Ibrahim of the Mo
Ibrahim Foundation is the
winner of Action for Africa
prize to recognise his
dedication to democratic
governance in Africa.
This exaltation of
character, which is worthy
of emulation, has made
positive impact on the lives
of his people today and will
continue to sustain them for a better future.
"By dint of his hard work,
foresight and
resourcefulness, the world
is walking up to a new
Africa wherein the
predominant theme in the emerging narrative about
Africa is no longer war,
famine and disease but
rather strong economic
performance, MEF said of
Dr Mo.
Previous winners of the
award include South
African businessman Cyril
Ramaphosa, former UN
Secretary General Dr Kofi
Annan, Nigerian author Wole Soyinka among
others.