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" Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet. "
Mo Ibrahim
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" The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. "
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" Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised. "
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" You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. "
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" Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow. "
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" For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy. "
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" Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it. "
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" Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time. "
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" Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door. "
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" Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable. "
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" Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored. "
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" Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. "
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" To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa. "
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" Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there. "
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" The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging. "
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" It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it. "
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" Roads are not practical in Africa. "
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" Look at the international bodies that came out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses. "
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" After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem. "
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" The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections. "
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