Unfavourable Shifts in Kenya and Some of Africa’s Other Regional Powerhouses

Publisher:
Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Publication Date:
15 October 2012
Tags:
Kenya, Governance

The sixth Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), released today, reveals that governance has improved in many African countries since 2000. However, it also reveals that some of Africa’s regional powerhouses – including Egypt,Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa – have shown unfavourable governance performance since 2006. Over the past six years, all four countries have declined in two of the four main IIAG categories – Safety & Rule of Law and Participation & Human Rights. Each of these four countries deteriorated the most in the Participation sub-category, which assessesthe extent to which citizens have the freedom to participate in the political process. South Africa and Kenya have also registered declines in Sustainable Economic Opportunity. And Nigeria, West Africa’s powerhouse, has for the first time this year fallen into the bottom ten governance performers on the continent. Kenya came 5th out of 11 countries in East Africa, and 25th out of 52 overall.

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