Tanzania President Dr John Pombe Magufuli has been accorded the Mandela Peace Prize by the Mandela Institute (MI)for promoting peacekeeping and social equality.
Mandela's award winning committee for 2017 received 4,956 award winners’ applications.
The other winners who were awarded are Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta who won Mandela's democracy Prize. President Kenyatta has been accorded the Mandela Democracy Prize for promoting democracy in his country.
Also the Supreme Court in Kenya and Zimbabwean Army have been awarded a Nelson Mandela Boldness Prize for making a deliberate decision to the interests of their nations.
President of the Mandela Institute, Dr Paul Kananura, said President Kenyatta has been awarded for demonstrating true democracy by accepting the Supreme Court's decision to respect the principle of separation of the authorities.
The Kenyan Supreme Court nullified the results of presidential election in August 8, 2017, which awarded Kenyatta victory and ordered the re-election to take part of which he participated and emerged the winner.
"This shows that President Kenyatta has contributed to the strengthening of Kenya's democracy," said Dr Kananura.
President of Chad, Idriss Itno has won the Mandela Security Prize for the anti-terrorism policy in the Sahel and Lake Chad areas.
Another winner is Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza was awarded the Mandela Courage Prize.
MI is a South Africa based institute and an international Think Tank that aims to promote equity, open economy, international help and African unity.
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