{"id":10941,"date":"2013-10-15T07:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T07:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/no-winner-for-mo-ibrahim-u-5m-prize\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T02:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T02:09:21","slug":"no-winner-for-mo-ibrahim-u-5m-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/no-winner-for-mo-ibrahim-u-5m-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"No winner for Mo Ibrahim U$5M Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{There will be no winner for the $5 million (Sh8.25 billion) for the African leadership prize issued by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Dr Salim Ahmed Salim, the Chair of the Prize Committee, announced yesterday in London.}}<\/p>\n

This is the second consecutive year the prize has not been awarded, and the fourth time in seven years since the project began.<\/p>\n

Though some analysts say perhaps the standards set by the award committee are too high especially in a continent like Africa where good governance, democracy and the rule of law are still not strong enough.<\/p>\n

Responding to questions on why they chose not to do so, Sudanese Industrialist Mo Ibrahim agreed that while the criteria for the prize were stringent, it was encouraging that the award already had three laureates. \u201cLet\u2019s respect the integrity of the prize committee and let them do their work,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The prize, set up by the billionaire in 2006, carries a $5 million prize paid over 10 years and $200,000 annually for life from then on, with a further $200,000 per year available for 10 years for good causes backed by the winner.<\/p>\n

The award goes to a democratically-elected African leader who has served their mandated term and left office in the last three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter careful consideration, the Prize Committee has determined not to award the 2013 Prize for Excellence in Leadership,\u201d Dr Salim Ahmed Salim, the Chair of the Prize Committee, said.<\/p>\n

The past three winners are Cape Verde\u2019s former president Pedro Verona Pires who won the prize in 2011, Botswana\u2019s ex-leader Festus Mogae (2008) and Mozambique\u2019s Joaquim Chissano in 2007.<\/p>\n

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{{There will be no winner for the $5 million (Sh8.25 billion) for the African leadership prize issued by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Dr Salim Ahmed Salim, the Chair of the Prize Committee, announced yesterday in London.}} This is the second consecutive year the prize has not been awarded, and the fourth time in seven years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000048799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-10941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000048799,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10941.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10941.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10941.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10941.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10941.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10941.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000048799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=10941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}