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Cape Verde: Ibrahim Governance prize goes to ex-President

Posted 10 October 2011 12:51 GMT

Twitter users react to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's attribution of this year's Governance Prize to ex-President of Cape Verde Pedro Pires. The $5 million prize dates from 2007 but went unattributed the past two years. Pires is the second “lusophone” politician to win the Prize, after ex-President of Mozambique Joaquim Chissano in 2007.

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Written byJanet Gunter

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