Nigeria Joins Mo's List of 'Worst Governed African States'

The 2012 Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) has revealed that governance in Africa has improved since 2000, but the story is different for Nigeria, as it has descended to the "bottom ten governance performers on the continent."
The report, which was released yesterday, also cited South Africa, Kenya and Egypt as three other African regional powerhouses showing unfavourable governance performance since 2006. Over the past four years, all four countries have declined in two of the four main IIAG categories - Safety and Rule of Law and Participation and Human rights.
Each of these four countries deteriorated the most in the Participation sub-category, which assesses the 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.
Abdoulie Janneh, former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa and Board Member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation said: "Given the vast natural and human resources of these four regional powers, these governance results are a concern. Each of these countries plays a key role in the economic and political landscape of the continent. To continue to optimally play this role requires a sustained commitment to balanced and equitable governance."

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