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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Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.
The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice.
Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.
When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media.
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.
Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.
Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'
Experience counts in government even more than in business.
Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.
Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.