When Sudanese-born billionaire Mo Ibrahim announced an annual $5 million prize to reward Africa's best leaders, he warned that there would be years when "we wouldn't award the prize."

Mo Ibrahim is a Sudanese businessman and head of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which he started in 2007 to draw attention to governance and leadership in Africa. The foundation produces an annual Index of African Governance and awards a $5 million prize to a former African head of state who "has demonstrated ...

Where would you find Mary Robinson dancing with Kofi Annan? The first black female British cabinet minister bopping with a couple of Nobel prize winners? Angélique Kidjo getting down with the former head of SG Warburg and several recently retired heads of state? The answer is Alexandria, where all ...

Despite the persistence of Africa’s natural and man-made horrors, the latest trend is cheeringly positive. Until the past few weeks of global turmoil, Africa’s doughty band of boosters were feeling they at last had something to smile about.

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is today announcing the next steps in strengthening the Ibrahim Index. Starting in 2009, the Foundation will begin the transfer to African institutions of various aspects of the compilation of the Index.

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has published the 2008 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of how Africa is being governed. It ranks Sierra Leone 37th out of 48 countries, with an overall score of 49.1 out of 100. Within the Economic Community of West African ...

Governance has improved in almost two-thirds of the countries in sub Saharan Africa, according to this year’s Ibrahim index of African governance, with SA in fifth place among 48 states on the index. It showed that 31 of 48 states recorded higher scores than in last year’s survey, with Liberia ...

What do we really know about the state of governance across our continent? How accurate is the picture of Africa painted by the daily headlines and often brief reports on international news broadcasts? The answers may surprise some people.

The real story coming out of Africa is that governance performance is improving. Malawi remained in the top 20 countries in Africa in the Mo Ibrahim Index, which measures good governance. The index released in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday and made available to Nyasa Times showed that between ...

Africa is widely regarded as a world leader by measure of basket-case symptoms — war, disease, famine and humanitarian disaster. The continent has a greater share of its people mired in poverty than any other, and it hosts the world's two greatest humanitarian crises, Darfur and Somalia. So it ...