No leadership prize winner

Published on 16/10/2012 01:04

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has announced that it will not award its $5 million prize that recognises democratically elected African leaders who excel in office and – critically – leave when they are supposed to. The prize committee said it reviewed several former leaders but decided that none met the award criteria. Any African leader who left office in the last three years was eligible.

Mo Ibrahim, a British mobile phone magnate who was born in Sudan, insisted he was not disappointed that no winner emerged, saying: “This is a prize for exceptional leadership, and we don’t need to go through the motions to just find anybody.”