Mo Ibrahim
Mo Ibrahim
Dr Mohamed "Mo" Ibrahimis a Sudanese-British mobile communications entrepreneur and billionaire. He worked for several other telecommunications companies before founding Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries. After selling Celtel in 2005 for $3.4 billion, he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well as creating the Mo Ibrahim Index, to evaluate nations' performance. He is also a member of the Africa Regional Advisory Board of...
NationalitySudanese
ProfessionBusinessman
CountrySudan
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The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.
Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.
Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.
Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'
Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa.
You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.
To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.
There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people.
Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa.
Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.