Ahead of Monday's announcement of the 2009 Ibrahim Index of Governance, the survey which ranks the quality of Africa's governments, Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese-born cellphone pioneer who founded the ...

Southern Africa is the continent's best-governed and Central Africa its worst-governed region, according to a new ranking of Africa's quality of governance published today.

With the launch of the 2009 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, we are reminded again of how strong the link is between governance and development in Africa. By looking broadly at what government ...

TWO separate studies, the 2009 Index of African Governance and the 2009 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, have ranked Namibia among the three best-governed countries in southern Africa.

Nigeria yesterday emerged 35th position out of the 53 countries in Africa, which were assessed and ranked on good governance by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation in its 2009 Ibrahim Index of African ...

Kenya has dropped seven places in this year's Ibrahim Index of Governance.

With the publication of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance this week, we see yet again the challenges we face in trying to gain an accurate picture of governance across the continent. In the ...

After the dark events of last month's riots in Kampala and the ensuing clampdown on freedom of speech, a new governance report on African countries indicates that Uganda generally performs better on ...

UGANDA is ranked 24th in this year's Mo Ibrahim Index, which measures good governance in Africa.

The launch of the 2009 results of an ambitious survey which ranks the quality of governance across Africa has been marred by a split between the foundation which inaugurated the project and the ...

The "Ibrahim Index of African Governance" announced in London and Cape Town on Tuesday is a project of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was established as part of the vision of leading African ...

Dr. Robert Rotberg, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, told AllAfrica about the index he is working on that will be used, among other purposes, to guide the selection committee of ...

With the launch of the 2009 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, we are reminded again of how strong the link is between governance and development in Africa. By looking broadly at what government ...

The quality of governance improved in nearly two-thirds of sub-Saharan African nations between 2005 and 2006. Liberia showed the biggest leap in government performance in the period, while Mauritania ...

Mauritius is sub-Saharan Africa's best-governed, and Somalia its worst-governed country. Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde and South Africa are also in the top five best-governed countries, while the ...

Mozambique has fallen in rank from 22nd to 26th out of 53 countries in this year's Ibrahim Index of African Governance.

People everywhere desire to live in safety and have recourse to the law when their rights are violated or they are victims of crime. This is one of the basic responsibilities of government and so is ...

This introduction to the 2009 Index of African Governance was published by the World Peace Foundation. The full index published by the foundation can be found on AllAfrica's resource pages.

VIOLENT crime contributed a great deal to SA slipping from fifth to ninth on the 2009 Index of African Governance, according to Prof Robert Rotberg of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in the US.

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is today announcing the next steps in strengthening the Ibrahim Index. Starting in 2009, the Foundation will begin the transfer to African institutions of various aspects of ...

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is today publishing an innovative new ranking of governance quality in sub-Saharan Africa.