Cape Verde: Third best in Africa – Mo Ibrahim index

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Cape Verde: Third best in Africa – Mo Ibrahim index

3:35 CAT | 29 Oct 2018

The overall governance of African countries is continuing to rise, but the progress is being driven by a group of 15 out of the 54 countries, the Ibrahim Good Governance Index 2018 that was published on Monday states.

The report showed that the index is at its highest level since 2008 with 49.9 points out of a scale between 0 and 100, one point higher than the 48.8 points seen then.

Among the Portuguese-speaking countries, Cape Verde is still the best classified and has again climbed to third place behind Mauritius (79.5 points) and the Seychelles (73.2 points).

However, the trend in the past 10 years since 2008 has been negative and the report stresses that Cape Verde’s evaluation has been deteriorating quickly in the last five years.

The second best Portuguese-speaking country is Sao Tome and Príncipe, in 12th place, showing some slight progress, followed by Mozambique which, although it is in 25th place is also considered to be deteriorating quickly.

In 42nd place, Guinea-Bissau has shown significant improvement, but Angola, in 45th, shows worrying signs and Equatorial Guinea, in 48th, has shown a negative trend since 2008 that has worsened in recent years.

The report concluded that the main factors of public governance are a balance between the amount of governance and a stronger focus on accountability, citizens’ rights and social welfare.

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) measures the quality of governance in 54 African countries every year by compiling the previous year’s statistics.