Now Mugabe and Obama can compare peace prizes.


Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe wins China's Nobel Peace Prize
Human rights groups and opposition politicians accuse Mugabe of overseeing the crippling of his country's economy and brutal crackdowns, but the prize organisers dismissed their concerns

By Richard Spencer
8:09PM BST 22 Oct 2015

China has awarded its home-grown equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize to Robert Mugabe, the man accused of driving Zimbabwe into poverty during his rule of more than three decades.

The Confucius Peace Prize, set up in 2010 after the Nobel original was awarded to a Chinese dissident infuriating the ruling Communist Party, was a reward for Mr Mugabe’s “inspired national leadership and service to pan-Africanism”.

"He has overcome difficulties of all kinds and has strongly committed himself to constructing his nation's political and economic order, while strongly supporting pan-Africanism and African independence," the citation read.

Zimbabwe has become closely tied to Chinese aid and investment during the latter stages of Mr Mugabe’s rule, as his relations with the West foundered.

China has always regarded itself as a “friend” of African nations, particularly those which are notionally socialist, and even more as it has begun to exploit their natural resources to feed its own growing economy.

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