Mo Ibrahim

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Mohammed "Mo" Ibrahim ( Arabic محمد إبراهيم, DMG Muḥammad Ibrāhīm ; * 1946 ) is a British - Sudanese mobile communications company committed to promoting good governance in Africa .

Life

Mo Ibrahim was born in 1946 as the son of a Nubian cotton merchant and grew up in Egypt . He studied in Alexandria and was an ardent Marxist during this time . After graduating, he worked for the Sudanese telephone company until he was given the opportunity to go to the UK for further training. There he completed his doctorate in 1981, after which he worked at British Telecom as technical director for the then new area of ​​mobile telephony.

In 1989 Mo Ibrahim went into business for himself with the software and consulting company MSI, which he sold to the Italian company Marconi Company in 2000 for 618 million US dollars . In 1998 he founded the company Celtel , which offers mobile telephony in Africa. Five years later Ibrahim sold the company Celtel, which meanwhile operates in 13 countries and was the African wireless operator with the highest growth rates, to a Kuwaiti company for 3.4 billion dollars .

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation

His own entrepreneurial experience in Africa led Mo Ibrahim to wonder what are the obstacles to the economic development of Africa. He came to the conclusion that poor governance is the main stumbling block, and in 2006 he founded the Mo Ibrahim Foundation , a foundation that aims to promote good governance .

The Prize for Achievement in African Leadership and its winners

The foundation awards a prize for exemplary former heads of state in Africa, the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership . The prize money is probably the highest that a prize receives in the world: a payment of US $ 5 million for the first ten years is followed by US $ 200,000 annually for life.

The previous winners:

  • 2007: The first politician to be awarded this prize was Joaquim Chissano , the former President of Mozambique . Chissano ended the long civil war in Mozambique and voluntarily resigned from his presidency, although the constitution would have allowed him to run for another term.
  • In 2008 Festus Mogae , the former President of Botswana, won the award for successful government work and the fight against AIDS in Botswana.
  • In 2011, the former President of Cape Verde , Pedro Pires , received the award.
  • 2014 Hifikepunye Pohamba , ex-President of Namibia
  • 2017 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , Ex-President Liberia (Awarded February 2018)

The prizes are advertised annually, but only awarded if the committee finds a candidate who meets their requirements. In 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016, the award was not awarded because the award committee was unable to find a suitable winner. Mo Ibrahim said: “The standards that are set for the winner are high and the number of potential candidates is low. It is therefore predictable that there will be years in which the prize will not be awarded. "

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation also compiles a list of states in terms of governance, the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), often referred to as the Ibrahim Index for short . The IIAG is made up of grades in more than 90 indicators for the following aspects of good governance : participation of citizens in political decisions, respect for human rights, public security, legal security, sustainable economic growth and the human development index . The index was first presented in 2007.

The latest edition of the Ibrahim Index , published in 2015, places Mauritius , the island nation of Cape Verde and Botswana at the top as the countries with the best governance. Accordingly, Eritrea , the Central African Republic and - in 54th and last place - Somalia are at the bottom as the countries with the worst governance. The Foundation attests that the Ivory Coast has made the greatest progress in governance over the past five years.

Others

He has joined The Giving Pledge charity .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger of September 10, 2007, p. 25: An entrepreneur wants to heal Africa .
  2. ↑ Prize winners
  3. ↑ Ex-President of Botswana receives the world's most valuable prize , Der Standard, October 20, 2008
  4. ↑ Nobel laureate Johnson-Sirleaf receives another five million prize , Deutsche Welle , February 12, 2018
  5. ^ Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership . In: Mo Ibrahim Foundation . ( ibrahim.foundation [accessed April 27, 2017]).
  6. ↑ In: D + C Development + Cooperation , year 2010, p. 269.
  7. ^ Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) . In: Mo Ibrahim Foundation . ( ibrahim.foundation [accessed April 27, 2017]).
  8. ↑ 2015 Ibrahim Index ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published October 5, 2015, accessed October 7, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moibrahimfoundation.org

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SURNAME Ibrahim, Mon.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ibrahim, Mohammed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudanese-British entrepreneur, good governance activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Sudan