# Cape Verde's Pedro Pires gets Mo's prize

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**Created:** [October 10, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cape-verdes-pedro-pires-gets-mos-prize/599182 "2011-10-10T15:15:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cape-verdes-pedro-pires-gets-mos-prize/599182/1 "2011-10-10T15:15:13Z")

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[News link](http://m.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/oct/10/pedro-pires-african-leadership-prize?cat=global-development&type=article).

Man, 5 million for simply being an upstanding, democratically ellected, public servant. Mo Ibrahim is certainly putting his money on the line to create a better Africa. I still don’t know how I feel about giving money to former heads of state, but Pires sounds like a class act.