Business magnate Mo Ibrahim, founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, has announced that the Foundation will not be awarding prize money to any former African leaders for good governance this year.

Celtel founder Mo Ibrahim told AllAfrica about his groundbreaking $5 million prize for African leadership, the largest award in the world. Excerpts:

In announcing the decision of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership Prize Committee, the Board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation released the following statement from the Prize Committee:

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has announced its decision not award the Ibrahim Prize to any winner this year. The Foundation, in a statement, said its Prize Committee had considered some credible ...

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 ...