Mozambique ex-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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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Libya on Sunday awarded its annual Moammar Gadhafi human rights prize to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for resisting &quot;imperialism&quot; and being a champion of the poor.
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A former drug sales representative wins award, despite judgeâs criticism that he should have brought scheme to light earlier.
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Mozambique election officials have declared ruling party candidate, Armando Guebuza, the winner of this month&#39;s presidential vote.
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President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner amid riots in Kenyaâs slums and evidence of election mischief.
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OSLO, Norway - Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work as leader of the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for almost 30 years.    Maathai, Kenya's deputy environment minister, is the first African woman to win the prize, first awarded in 1901...
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize from Nobel chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos in Oslo City Hall.
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Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano said on Thursday he was happy to quit as Mozambique&#39;s leader and hoped to be remembered for securing peace and rapid economic growth in the once war-torn country.
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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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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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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist, today became the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize. Ms Maathai, 64, Kenya&#39;s deputy environment minister, heads the Green Belt movement, a group that
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Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan woman who started an environmental movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and who has campaigned for women&#39;s rights and greater democracy in her home country, won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday.
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The Mo Ibrahim Prize - worth $5m - will be awarded in London to a former African head of state.
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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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Wangari Maathai of Kenya became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote democracy, protect the environment and improve social conditions.
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Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe wins the International Man Booker Prize in honour of his literary career.
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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.