Chaka Chaka receives WEF Crystal Award

Performer Yvonne Chaka Chaka has become the first African woman to receive the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award for artists who improve the world through their work, the World Health Organisation says.
Chaka Chaka was the first Goodwill Ambassador for the global Roll Back Malaria Partnership. She is also United Nations Childrens Fund goodwill ambassador for malaria in Africa, United Nations Millennium Development Goals envoy for Africa, and was the first ambassador for former president Nelson Mandela's Children's Fund.