{"id":52630,"date":"2014-10-01T07:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=52630"},"modified":"2014-10-01T07:26:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T07:26:25","slug":"mo-ibrahim-political-temperature-too-high-in-ghana-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/mo-ibrahim-political-temperature-too-high-in-ghana-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Ibrahim: \u2018Political temperature too high\u2019 in Ghana, Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>International businessman, Mo Ibraham, has stated that the seeming high political temperature in Ghana is hampering the absolute democratic development of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to him, Ghana and Senegal would see more democratic improvement if the intensity in the political temperature in both countries was reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana and Senegal are good countries. Very wonderful democratic countries. They have very good natural resources,\u201d the businessman told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;iCWXzhnBs2P4lBl39DxYjsK0vmKKcziW&#8221;]When asked what he felt was hampering development in the two countries, Ibrahim said, \u201cProbably, the political temperature is a little bit too high in these two countries. I really will like to see a little bit of calmness going forward\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking on the 2014 Ibrahim Index of African Governance.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana was ranked seventh out of 52 countries on participation in governance and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana retained its 2013 position on the ranking, increasing its score by 1.6 to 68.2 per cent on the four thematic areas of Safety and Rule of Law, Participation and Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human Development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/graphic.com.gh\/news\/politics\/31464-mo-ibrahim-political-temperature-too-high-in-ghana-senegal.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong> Graphic Online<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International businessman, Mo Ibraham, has stated that the seeming high political temperature in Ghana is hampering the absolute democratic development of the country. According to him, Ghana and Senegal would see more democratic improvement if the intensity in the political temperature in both countries was reduced. \u201cGhana and Senegal are good countries. Very wonderful democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":52631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mo Ibrahim: \u2018Political temperature too high\u2019 in Ghana, Senegal  - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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