Tuesday, May 23 2017 11:04

ArmInfo.Members of the Club of Madrid former President of Tanzania Benjamin Mkapa and former President of Botswana Festus Mogae will attend the ceremony of  awarding the "Aurora" prize in Yerevan, which will be held on May 28.

As part of the agreement, Club de Madrid members Benjamin Mkapa,  former President of Tanzania, and Festus Mogae, former President of  Botswana, will participate in the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity  Ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia. These two African leaders have had  first-hand experience in dealing with ongoing conflict in Africa and  especially in Sudan. In Yerevan, they will be engaging with  humanitarian practitioners, scholars, media professionals and  policymakers to discuss effective approaches and reforms for  peacekeeping and peacebuilding and the role of economic development  in the process. 

The Aurora Prize is a global award established by the Aurora  Humanitarian Initiative and granted to individuals in recognition of  the exceptional impact their actions have made on preserving human  life and advancing humanitarian causes. Presidents Mkapa and Mogae  will be on-hand to celebrate the 2017 Aurora Prize Laureate, who will  receive a US$100,000 grant to continue their work, and the  opportunity to continue the cycle of giving by nominating  organizations that inspire their work for a US$1,000,000 award.  The  2017 Aurora Prize Laureate will be selected from these five  finalists: Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman, Jamila Afghani, Dr. Tom  Catena, Muhammad Darwish and Dr. Denis Mukwege. 

The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, a non-profit charitable  organization established on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian  Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors, today announced a  collaboration with the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid, the  world's largest independent forum of former heads of state and  government. The collaboration, which began May 1, 2017, aims to  inspire action to support those in need of humanitarian aid.