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Festus Mogae's Biography

Festus Gontebanye Mogae (born 21 August 1939) is a former President of Botswana, having served from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was reelected in October 2004; after ten years in office, he stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Ian Khama. Mogae is a Motalaote and his native language is Setswana.

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  • Reasons for Africa to celebrate
    News Source: Daily Nation | about 1 month ago
    Congo pact means the country can stop importing most of its food Finally, there is some good news. This week, South African farmers got the right to till some 200,000 hectares of land in the Republic of Congo. The same day the news filtered out on
  • Mo Ibrahim Foundation withholds African leadership prize
    News Source: Sudan Tribune | about 1 month ago
    Prize Committee that selects the winner of world’s largest individual annual award, the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has decided to hold back the five-million dollar prize of this year. The Prize Committee, this week in
  • Botswana leader names Cabinet
    News Source: Daily Nation | about 1 month ago
    Botswana President Ian Khama has named his first Cabinet, re-appointing all the ministers who survived the General Election last Friday. The Botswana Head of State has been ruling for the last 16 months largely with the Cabinet he inherited from his
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  • Why Mo Ibrahim snubbed Kufuor
    Blog Source: atokd.com | about 1 month ago
    Festus Mogae ruled Botswana, a small, landlocked country with prudence and by the time he left office, the country had become an African economic giant, its people prospering and lacking very little. Kufuor cannot say he took Ghana out ...
  • Why No Ibrahim Prize This Year?
    Blog Source: wagneripsa.wordpress.com | about 1 month ago
    Past awards have gone to Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique and Festus Mogae of Botswana. This year's favorites included former leaders of Ghana and Nigeria. Since learning of the Ibrahim Prize in Politics of International Development last ...
  • Mo Ibrahim Foundation announces decision not to award ...
    Blog Source: www.theghanaianjournal.com | about 1 month ago
    The forum will include the following sessions: Climate change and climate justice chaired by President Festus Mogae. President Mogae is one of United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon's four special envoys on climate change. ...
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