Mo Ibrahim Quotes
Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent.
Ibrahim, Mo. "2014 Ibrahim Index of African Governance." Mo Ibrahim Foundation, 2014.
This quotation was sent by Josephus Daniels to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936 for use in his fireside chats.
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The “surge” was an increase in the number of troops deployed in the Iraq War at the time as things were not going well in the war. However, the Senator represented New Orleans and the cleanup and reconstruction effort after Hurricane Katrina there was not going well either. Landrieu used the example of the surge in the war effort to advocate a larger effort in New Orleans.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
Mohammed "Mo" Ibrahim is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several telecommunications companies, before founding Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries. After selling Celtel in 2005 for $3.4 billion, he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well as creating the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, to evaluate nations' performance. He is also a member of the Africa regional advisory board of London Business School.
