Festus Mogae, Former President of Botswana
Festus Mogae, Botswana’s former president, had been announced as the winner of the $5 million Ibrahim Prize. This prize was set up by Mo Ibrahim, telecommunications entrepreneur and it is estimated to be the most valuable in the world.
Mr. Mogae was awarded this prize by Kofi Annan, ex Secretary General for the United Nations, and it comes in recognition of his ten years of good governing.
He was president of Botswana during two mandates; he managed to consolidate democracy in his country and instate a strong respect for the law and for human rights in general.
The most important issue he had to deal with during his time in the office was that his country has one of the highest number of HIV/Aids infected persons, and his greatest accomplishment was to make anti-retroviral drugs available for all those infected.
Mr. Annan expressed his deep admiration towards the man who managed to give a chance for all the ill to get treatment, who managed to keep one of world’s largest diamond producer at a low corruption level and who tried by all legal means to bring his country forward, from all points of view.
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This post was written by Dana Ciucalau on October 20, 2008
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