{{President Paul Kagame has emerged winner of the African Peace personality of the Year award.}}<\/p>\n
Kagame was short listed with three other African personalities for the Africa Peace personality Award which was by an online voting system via the website of Miss University Africahttp:\/\/www.missuniversityafrica.org\/).<\/p>\n
His Excellency, Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of
\nSierra Leone, for his approach and support to unite his people and
\nheal the wounds of trauma, displacements, deaths and war in
\nSierra Leone.<\/p>\n
His Excellency Paul Kagame President of the Republic of Rwanda,
\nfor his ingenuity and style of leadership to unite the people of
\nRwanda and seek peaceful means to stabilize his country after the
\ngenocide.<\/p>\n
Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf President of the Republic of
\nLiberia, for encouraging investment and unanimously elected for
\nthe second time as president of Liberia having led her country out
\nof the ashes of a brutal civil war.<\/p>\n
His Excellency, Chief Olesugun Obasanjo Former President,
\nFederal Republic of Nigeria, for his efforts to restore peace in
\nAfrica most especially the West African Sub region<\/p>\n
The vote which lasted 41 days had His Excellency President Paul
\nKagame with a total vote of 817,201 (eight hundred and seventeen
\nthousand two hundred and one) as the highest score of the four
\nshortlisted.<\/p>\n
The countries that voted his Excellency the most were: Rwanda, Ghana,
\nLiberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Uganda. most of the comments
\nposted were “the manner in which President Kagame handled the Hutus and Tutsis crisis in Rwanda demands the loudest applause
\nworldwide”<\/p>\n
According to Mr. Taylor who is one of the managers of Miss University
\nAfrica, He personally remember during a visit to Liberia when they met
\nwith president Ellen Johnson of Liberia, after He told her about the
\nvotes and award she said “What President Kagame has done in Rwanda
\nis very commendable, Rwanda is like a mentor to Liberia as we have a
\nlot to learn from them especially coming out of a civil war” to him, for
\nan African leader to speak in such volume about Rwandan President
\nclearly states why he won this award from the rest of Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Organizers of Miss University Africa intend to fly to Rwanda with
\nthis award which will have His Excellency name engraved on crystal.
\nCongratulations to our President and Congratulations to All Rwandans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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