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The idea is to encourage good governance in a continent whose fantastic potential has been sapped by pervasive corruption. Ibrahim believes that "nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important to African development than good governance." By holding out this prize, he hopes the temptation for African presidents and prime ministers to...
Born in Cairo in 1946, the son of a cotton industry official and a Nubian mother (the ethnic group found in southern Egypt and northern Sudan), Ibrahim got an engineering degree and started working for a telecommunications company in Sudan. He got his Ph.D. in the then-obscure field of...
(2 of 2) But not if its leaders have their hands in the till, which chokes off investment and enterprise on which development depends. Foreign aid donors have been trying to tackle this problem in the way they administer (and deny) grants, with some success, and African leaders have started...
Our issue celebrating Time's 60-year presence in Europe took a look at how shifting identities - of the family, the state, East and West - are propelling the Continent into new realms of exploration, friction and self-discovery. Readers cast a wary eye to the future but found good things...
If VW really wants a comeback in America, however, it will have to reshuffle priorities. The U.S. sales team has been fighting for more Rabbits, which are selling well. But VW can't reproduce enough Rabbits to meet demand; it supplies other markets first. VW often exports new models to...