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Ex-Leader to Get $5m Africa Prize

BBC News
20th Oct. '08

An African leader who has left power in the past three years is to be awarded a $5m prize to encourage good governance. Possible winners include the ex-leaders of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo; Sierra Leone, Tejan Kabbah; Botswana, Festus Mogae and Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa.

The Ibrahim Prize - the most valuable individual annual prize in the world - was set up by Sudan-born telecoms entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim. Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano won the first prize last year.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is to announce the winner of the prize for a retired president in London. As well as the $5m prize, the winner will also get $200,000 a year for the rest of his life.

Ibrahim Index

Top Five

1: Mauritius
2: Seychelles
3: Cape Verde
4: Botswana
5: South Africa

Bottom Five

44: Angola
45: Sudan
46: Chad
47: DR Congo
48: Somalia

Mr Ibrahim's foundation recently issued a report which said governance had improved in most African countries. The Ibrahim index, based on data from 2006, listed Mauritius as the best-governed out of 48 African countries and Liberia as the most improved. Somalia was ranked last, a place behind the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"Obscured by many of the headlines of the past few months, the real story coming out of Africa is that governance performance across a large majority of African countries is improving," Mr Ibrahim said. "Africa is open for business," he told Reuters news agency.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/7679391.stm

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Ibrahim Index
http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/index-2008/
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African Leader in AIDS Fight Wins $5 Million Prize

Festus Gontebanye Mogae, the former president of Botswana, was honored Monday with a multimillion-dollar leadership prize for his campaign to tackle one of the world's highest HIV infection rates.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200810..._ylt=Av19P45mt4d2Vq6CJWYQE1OWSbYF

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