Chissano honoured

as a positive step in encouraging fellow African politicians, like Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe, to follow and uphold the principles that have given Mozambique international credibility as a pluralist nation.
“Joaquim Chissano is credited with turning Mozambique into one of Africa’s successful states with an annual economic growth rate in 2004 of 8.2%. He secured peace between Mozambique’s warring factions and turned the country into a multi-party state, introducing a free-market economy,” said Chatham House Institute, a UK based international affairs analysis organization in a press release.
Chissano was also praised for his efforts in bringing to his country “economic and political stability, now widely hailed as a success story across the African continent – one which many hope can be repeated elsewhere” The former president will be in London on 16 October, this year, to collect his award.
Other contenders for this year’s Prize were Louise Arbour, Head of the UN Human Rights Commission and Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan. The Chatham House Prize is awarded to a leading international statesperson who has made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year. -CAJ News