Ranking The Best And The Worse In Africa

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Contention Over Rankings of African Nations -- New York Times

JOHANNESBURG — Two independent ratings of Africa’s best- and worst-governed nations — one released Monday, the other last week — both put Mauritius at the top of the heap and Somalia at the bottom and reached often similar, though far from identical, conclusions about the 51 countries in between.

But behind these efforts to assess the voluminous evidence on African governance — a catchall phrase that includes measures like corruption, vaccine coverage, crime rates and armed conflict — lies a dispute between a Harvard political scientist, Robert Rotberg, and a wealthy Sudanese-born philanthropist, Mo Ibrahim, who used to finance his research.

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Update: Group condemns Guinea shootings, Madagascar coup -- AP

My Comment: I would rank Somalia as the worse, and South Africa/Botswana as the best