News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
The decision to withhold Africa's biggest leadership prize in only its third year has prompted discussion of the failings of two heavyweights: South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo. The announcement that there would be no Mo...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
Only three years after it was set up the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership — the brain child of Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese-born mobile phone tycoon — has apparently run out of suitable candidates. The problem for the organisers is...
News Source: CNN
| about 1 month ago
A $5 million prize to reward good leadership in Africa was dramatically awarded Monday to ... nobody. It was the first time in the three-year history of the Mo Ibrahim Prize that the committee did not name a winner. "The Prize Committee has...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
Sudanese Businessman Mo Ibrahim has announced he will not be awarding a multi-million-dollar award for good governance in Africa this year. Ibrahim told reporters he meant no disrespect to those former leaders who were considered for the award. ...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| about 1 month ago
This year, cellphone magnate Mo Ibrahim won't be giving a $5 million prize for good governance...For the past two years, Sudanese-born cellphone magnate Mo Ibrahim has given out $5 million prizes to outstanding African presidents who had served their...
News Source: Sowetan
| about 1 month ago
19 October 2009 A $5 million prize for former African leaders who set examples of honest, democratic government will not be awarded this year, the prize committee said on Monday. Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born telecommunications entrepreneur who set...