The Ibrahim Index of African Governance

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance was published on Tuesday in London by Mo Ibrahim as a new means to judge African leadership:

An attempt to create the most comprehensive annual benchmarks to measure the performance of governments in Africa shows the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius to be the best-governed country in Africa, Somalia the worst, and Rwanda the fastest improving.

...[The Index] sets out to provide a more complete picture of governance in Africa than existing indices, in the hope of providing “objective criteria by which citizens can hold their governments to account” and to stimulate African leaders to improve.

...The index rates performance of 48 countries and governments in sub-Saharan Africa against criteria that include security, rule of law and corruption, rights, sustainable economic opportunity and human development.