Mauritius, Cape Verde, Botswana and Seychelles are all better. Zimbabwe is down near the bottom. In last place is Somalia
South Africa ranks fifth overall on the 2011 Ibrahim Index on the quality of African governance, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation said on Monday.
Mauritius, Cape Verde, Botswana and Seychelles took the first four places out of 53.
Somalia was 53rd in the study of data which compiles 86 indicators to measure the effective delivery of public goods and services to African citizens.
Namibia was sixth, Lesotho eighth, Zambia 16th, Malawi 17th, Mozambique 21st, Madagascar 33rd and Zimbabwe 51st. Libya was 28th and Egypt 10th.
CAPE VERDE’S PIRES WINS LEADERSHIP AWARD
President Pedro Verona Pires of Cape Verde has won the 2011 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, committee chairman Salim Ahmed Salim said on Monday.
In 2009 and 2010, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation did not choose anyone because it felt no one made the grade.
Salim said via a video to Johannesburg that the committee had been impressed at how the country had graduated from the United Nations’ least developed category.
Pires had transformed his country from an autocratic to a democratic society, able to lose an election and accept the loss.
The country had also become a middle-income country despite few natural resources.
South Africa only comes 5th for governance
Mauritius, Cape Verde, Botswana and Seychelles are all better. Zimbabwe is down near the bottom. In last place is Somalia
South Africa ranks fifth overall on the 2011 Ibrahim Index on the quality of African governance, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation said on Monday.
Mauritius, Cape Verde, Botswana and Seychelles took the first four places out of 53.
Somalia was 53rd in the study of data which compiles 86 indicators to measure the effective delivery of public goods and services to African citizens.
Namibia was sixth, Lesotho eighth, Zambia 16th, Malawi 17th, Mozambique 21st, Madagascar 33rd and Zimbabwe 51st. Libya was 28th and Egypt 10th.
CAPE VERDE’S PIRES WINS LEADERSHIP AWARD
President Pedro Verona Pires of Cape Verde has won the 2011 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, committee chairman Salim Ahmed Salim said on Monday.
In 2009 and 2010, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation did not choose anyone because it felt no one made the grade.
Salim said via a video to Johannesburg that the committee had been impressed at how the country had graduated from the United Nations’ least developed category.
Pires had transformed his country from an autocratic to a democratic society, able to lose an election and accept the loss.
The country had also become a middle-income country despite few natural resources.
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