No Winner For Mo Ibrahim Africa Leader Prize This Year

Leaders who governed well, raised living standards and then voluntarily left office are thin on the ground in Africa

There is no winner this year for the world's most valuable individual prize—the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa. The $5m (£3.2m) prize is supposed to be awarded each year to a democratically elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then voluntarily left office. The panel said no candidate had met all of the criteria—as in 2009 and 2010.