Africa suffering in ‘strongmen’ era, says governance watchdog
Democracy and rights are declining in Africa as leaders take their cues from the rise of strongmen in other parts of the world, the head of a governance monitor told AFP. Mo Ibrahim, 80, is a Sudanese-British billionaire who made a fortune in telecoms and ploughed it into monitoring and encouraging better governance across Africa. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s latest report, finds broad progress on economic opportunity and human development over the past decade, but also steep declines in...
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[Claude] Report 2 is a fuller AFP version of the same Mo Ibrahim governance-watchdog remarks on Africa's strongmen era, with no conflicting facts.
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