Niger’s President wins 2020 winner Ibrahim prize for African leadership

Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou has been announced the 2020 winner of 5 million Dollars Ibrahim prize for African leadership.

Issoufou has served two five-year terms as president from 2011 to 2020.

He is set to be succeeded by former interior minister, Mohamed Bazoum, who won the presidential election last month.

The prize committee praised the Nigerien president’s leadership after inheriting one of the world’s poorest economies.

It said he “fostered economic growth, shown unwavering commitment to regional stability and to the constitution, and championed African democracy.”

Issoufou is the sixth recipient of the Ibrahim Prize and has tweeted that the prize honours all Nigerien people.