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African leaders on fool’s errand African leaders say they’re on a mission to broker peace between Ukraine and Russia. Evidently, they think European leaders haven’t bothered to try. But prevailing facts and circumstances make clear these Africans can only be on a fool’s errand. An African delegation on a peace mission to Ukraine headed by South… Read more.
One can only imagine the excitement among members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee as they discussed all of the reasons why President Barack Obama was worthy of being awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. By contrast, one can only imagine the despair among members of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership (MIPAAL)… Read more.
Reprinted from Caribbean Net News caribbeannetnews.com Published 19 June 2008 Why have government officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands seemed so indifferent to corruption, and so immune from prosecution? That’s the question I’ve fielded from UK and American colleagues for years, especially as clear and convincing evidence of mismanagement and self-dealing piled up,… Read more.
African leaders are so congenitally corrupt that the only way “to remove corruption and improve governance” across the continent is to bribe them. This seems to be the perverse reasoning that inspired Sudanese billionaire Mo Ibrahim to award a prize to the African leader deemed least corrupt. And to prove his intent to give this… Read more.
