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Mo Ibrahim participates at COP21 with The B Team
The B Team members met in Paris to urge governments to set strong targets for climate change. They called upon world leaders to commit to a goal of net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. Mo Ibrahim, along with B Team leaders Sir Richard Branson, Sharan Burrow, Kathy Calvin, David Crane, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Guilherme Leal, Dr Ngozi Okonjo… Read more
Mo Ibrahim honoured by ONE and Red
For their 10-year anniversary, ONE and Red hosted an event in New York to celebrate the incredible progress that’s been made in the fights against HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty. Mo Ibrahim, along with Michael R. Bloomberg, Bill and Melinda Gates and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was honoured and recognised for being one of the extraordinary leaders,… Read more
Happy New Year from the Mo Ibrahim Foundation
January is a time for reflection on the year gone by, whilst planning for the year ahead. Africa saw some peaceful elections in 2015, including those in Nigeria and Tanzania. At the same time, other countries continued to battle the Ebola epidemic, and succeeded by the end of the year. In some countries economic growth remained impressive, whilst… Read more
Africa’s road in 2016: progress in governance needs to be sustained
Adding his voice to those looking at Africa in 2016, Mo Ibrahim reflects on the challenges for good governance. This post first appeared in the Foresight Africa report, Top Priorities for the Continent in 2016: “Launched last October, the 2015 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) reveals that overall governance progress in Africa is… Read more
Too important to fail - addressing the humanitarian financing gap
High-level panel on humanitarian financing presents report On Sunday 17 January, the high-level panel report on humanitarian financing was released and presented to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The UN says there are no fewer than 125 million people devastated by wars and natural… Read more
Can Africa take advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
Emerging nations like Guinea can make better choices about how they develop. We don’t need to repeat the mistakes of the West. -Alpha Condé, President of Guinea The UN Sustainable Development Goal 9 declares that, “Sustained investment in infrastructure and innovation are crucial drivers of economic growth and development.” As… Read more
26th African Union Summit focuses on Human Rights
This week sees the 26th African Union Summit taking place in Addis Ababa. The topic this year is the African Year of Human Rights, with a particular focus on the rights of women. As delegates gather in Ethiopia, we take a look at what the Ibrahim Index of African Governance tells us about human rights and gender in African governance today: The… Read more
Mo Ibrahim to serve on the Global Commission on Business and Sustainable Development
The Global Commission on Business and Sustainable Development was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, 21 January. The commission aims to look for ways to simplify the complex development agenda, translate what it means for business and look at how to develop new business models and creative ways of financing to allow… Read more
Ibrahim Fellow Carl Manlan joins New Voices Fellows
The Aspen Institute has announced the 2016 Class of New Voices Fellows, Including Experts in Food Security, Vaccines & Infectious Diseases, and Development Policy & Finance. Carl Manlan, 2014 Ibrahim Fellow to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will join this year’s group. The Fellowship offers development experts from… Read more
Robtel Pailey talks about her anti-corruption children's book, Gbagba
MIF scholar Robtel Neajai Pailey delivered a TEDxEuston talk in London recently referencing her book Gbagba. I wanted to equip children with the power of their own ethical consciousness. Launched in 2013 on International Anti-Corruption Day at the Centre for African Studies, Gbagba is an anti-corruption primer for children, which follows a few… Read more
