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Pakistan Takes Top
Honours At This Year's Third-World Awards
Ouagadougou-In lasts night’s forty-third annual Third-World Awards ceremony, Pakistan was honoured with the award for ‘most outstanding nation in the third-world’.
The announcement ended a night which saw many of the world’s worst countries receive awards for their lack of impact on a global scale over the past year. Taking home the award for ‘best new-comer’ was Bangladesh, whose undesirable geographic location, as well high number of natural disasters allowed it to finally plunge into the lower echelon of nations. The ‘most corrupted country’ award went to Sierra Leone, for it’s ‘outstanding achievement in political and electoral corruption,’in particular their forced amputation of dissident voters.
The award for ‘most overrated country’ went to Ethiopia, by virtue of the fact that, despite being ranked an atrocious 168th out of 173 in the U.N. scale, still manage to somehow rival nations such as Canada in number of Olympic gold medals won. Senegal was disappointed to not win this category, considering their astonishing performance in this year’s World Cup.
Mali and Malawi were co-victors in the ‘most obscure country’ category, a development which drew many confused comments from the crowd. "I always thought they were the same country," said Kenyan Foreign Minister Charles Dekenke, "and we’re in the same continent. Go figure."
Uganda nabbed the prize for ‘biggest foreign-aid leech’, which was their second time winning the award in three years. Angola were victorious in the ‘top potential’ category, and Djibouti won the award for ‘most unpronounceable name’, which was the sixth consecutive time the tiny nation has won the award.
The lifetime achievement award was presented to Burkina Faso, whose government and society has been mired in turmoil and rebellion dating back even to the days of when the country was known as Upper Volta.
Overall the evening was a terrific success, and at the end of it each and every nation made a pledge that it would do its very best to improve the quality of life for all citizens, so that it would not have to attend the 2003 awards ceremony.
