https://www.myjoyonline.com/cape-verde-ex-leader-pedro-pires-wins-mo-ibrahim-prize/-------https://www.myjoyonline.com/cape-verde-ex-leader-pedro-pires-wins-mo-ibrahim-prize/
Former Cape Verde President Pedro Verona Pires has been awarded this year's $5m (£3.2m) Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa. The prize committee said Mr Pires, who stepped down in August, had helped make the archipelago off the West African coast a "model of democracy, stability and increased prosperity". The prize is supposed to be awarded each year to a democratically elected leader who has voluntarily left office. There has been no winner for two years. The committee said there had been no suitable candidate. The $5m award, given over 10 years, is the world's most valuable individual prize. The previous winners are Botswana's President Festus Mogae and Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano.

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