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Pedro Pires – Ex-leader of Cape Verde
Former Cape Verde President Pedro Verona Pires has been awarded this year’s $5million (£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.
Source: BBC