{"id":39669,"date":"2025-10-17T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/17\/unfortunately-strongmen-are-back-in-fashion-philantropist-mo-ibrahim\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:02:01","slug":"unfortunately-strongmen-are-back-in-fashion-philantropist-mo-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/17\/unfortunately-strongmen-are-back-in-fashion-philantropist-mo-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunately, &lsquo;strongmen are back in fashion&rsquo;: Philantropist Mo Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In an interview with FRANCE 24, the renowned Sudanese-British billionaire and philantropist Mo Ibrahim asserted that \u00ab\u00a0good leadership in Africa\u00a0\u00bb has been deteriorating in recent years. His foundation, which is supposed to award an annual Ibrahim\u00a0Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, has not done so in the past five years. \u00ab\u00a0We have unfortunately too many conflicts, too many strongmen. Strongmen are back in fashion, not only in Africa but everywhere now,\u00a0\u00bb the businessman said. Ibrahim also commented on the humanitarian situation in war-torn Sudan, calling it \u00ab\u00a0the worst tragedy today in the world\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with FRANCE 24, the renowned Sudanese-British billionaire and philantropist Mo Ibrahim asserted that \u00ab\u00a0good leadership in Africa\u00a0\u00bb has been deteriorating in recent years. His foundation, which is supposed to award an annual Ibrahim\u00a0Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, has not done so in the past five years. \u00ab\u00a0We have unfortunately too many &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-39669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}