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Africa suffering in ‘strongmen’ era, says governance watchdog

Africa suffering in ‘strongmen’ era, says governance watchdog
South China Morning Post Saturday 31 October 2026, 10:06 UTC By Agence France-Presse 1 min read
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Democracy and rights are declining in Africa as leaders take their cues from the rise of strongmen in other parts of the world, the head of a governance monitor told AFP. Mo Ibrahim, 80, is a Sudanese-British billionaire who made a fortune in telecoms and ploughed it into monitoring and encouraging better governance across Africa. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s latest report, finds broad progress on economic opportunity and human development over the past decade, but also steep declines in...

Democracy and rights are declining in Africa as leaders take their cues from the rise of strongmen in other parts of the world, the head of a governance monitor told AFP. Mo Ibrahim, 80, is a Sudanese-British billionaire who made a fortune in telecoms and ploughed it into monitoring and encouraging better governance across Africa. The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s latest report, finds broad progress on economic opportunity and human development over the past decade, but also steep declines in... [Image text:] RUSSIA RUSS SIA-AFRIG H-AOPNKA POCC08 1KA POCC08
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