BULAWAYO -- Zimbabwe has been ranked among the worst poorly governed countries in Africa by the Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government which grouped the country among strife torn nations like Somalia.Zimbabwe, under a new unity government that was formed to end political and economic crisis, was ranked number 44 on the Kennedy School of Governments Index of African Governance. 53 nations were surveyed.
The American institution said Zimbabwe scored low scores in areas of property and human rights that remain under serious threat despite promised by the coalition government to uphold human and property rights.
President Robert Mugabe and former opposition leaders, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara formed a power sharing government in February that has done well to halt further economic hemorrhage as highlighted by the fall in inflation figures from about 500 billion percent last year to about 0.4 percent.
But the unity government has struggle on the political and human rights front where reforms are moving at a snails pace and supporters of Mugabes Zanu (PF) party continue invading farms and committing human rights violations.
According to report on good governance in Africa, the bottom-placed 13 nations that remain plagued by bad governance are Guinea, Zimbabwe, Angola, Eritrea, the Central African Republic (CAR), Code dIvoire, Congo, Chad, the Sudan and Somalia.
Mauritius, the Seychelles, Cape Verde, and Botswana are the four best governed countries this year, as they were in last year’s annually produced Index, then called the Ibrahim Index of African Governance.
Tunisia, Ghana, Algeria, Namibia, South Africa, and Sao Tome and Principe round out the top ten best overall performers.
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