一个治理监督机构的负责人对法新社表示，随着非洲领导人从世界其他地区强人的崛起中效仿，非洲的民主和权利正在下降。
Democracy and rights are declining in Africa as leaders take their cues from the rise of strongmen in other parts of the world, the head of a governance monitor told AFP.
现年80岁的莫·易卜拉欣是一名苏丹裔英国亿万富翁，他在电信行业发家，并将财富投入到监督和促进非洲各地更好治理中。
Mo Ibrahim, 80, is a Sudanese-British billionaire who made a fortune in telecoms and ploughed it into monitoring and encouraging better governance across Africa.
莫·易卜拉欣基金会的最新报告发现，过去十年间，经济机会和人类发展取得了广泛进展，但在非洲遭受多次军事政变和毁灭性战争之际，安全、人权和公众参与度却出现了急剧下降。
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation’s latest report, finds broad progress on economic opportunity and human development over the past decade, but also steep declines in security, human rights and public participation at a time when Africa has suffered multiple military coups and devastating wars.
易卜拉欣重点提到了过去一年坦桑尼亚的大选，当地安全部队被指控杀害了数千名抗议者；以及乌干达的大选，反对派领导人博比·温遭到了“追捕和人身攻击”。“这简直太耻辱了，”易卜拉欣说。
Ibrahim highlighted elections over the past year in Tanzania, where security forces were accused of killing thousands of protesters, and Uganda, where opposition leader Bobi Wine was “hunted and physically attacked”. “It’s just disgraceful,” said Ibrahim.
该指数发现，由于经济状况的改善，有30个国家（占非洲半数人口）在2025年的总体治理得分高于2016年，但有23个国家出现恶化，1个国家保持不变。
The index found that 30 countries, home to half of Africa’s population, had better overall governance scores in 2025 than in 2016 – thanks largely to improved economies – but 23 countries deteriorated and one was unchanged.
这是一个奇怪的时代……我们到处都能看到这种强人崛起的现象莫·易卜拉欣，治理监督机构负责人易卜拉欣将非洲权利的下降部分归咎于世界各地自由民主的衰落——从美国到欧洲和俄罗斯。
It is a strange era … we can see this phenomenon of the rise of strongmen everywhereMo Ibrahim, head of a governance monitor Ibrahim blames declining rights in Africa partly on the decline of liberal democracy around the world – from the United States to Europe and Russia.
他说：“这是一个奇怪的时代……我们到处都能看到这种强人崛起的现象。”
“It is a strange era … we can see this phenomenon of the rise of strongmen everywhere,” he said.
他还补充道：“如果你是一个非洲领导人，看到所有那些强势人物在各地崛起……你会说，为什么我不能？我也能逃脱惩罚。”
“If you’re an African leader and you see all those strong people rising everywhere … you say, why not me too? I can get away with it,” he added.
他强调了特朗普政府向更加“交易型外交”的转变，称这“削弱了国际秩序和法治”。
He highlighted the Trump administration’s switch to a more “transactional kind of diplomacy”, saying it was “weakening the international order and the rule of law”.
报告显示，该大陆一些最大国家的表现急剧下降，这通常与政治权利的减少有关。
The report shows sharp declines among some of the continent’s largest countries, often linked to reduced political rights.
在表现下降幅度最大的10个国家中，有7个国家在过去十年中经历过至少一次政变，其中包括跌幅最大的布基纳法索，而尼日利亚、苏丹和突尼斯也是表现最差的国家之列。
Seven of the 10 countries with the biggest declines experienced at least one coup over the decade, including Burkina Faso, which recorded the largest deterioration, while Nigeria, Sudan and Tunisia were also among the worst performers.
该大陆在未来几年面临新的挑战，其中最主要的是华盛顿去年决定突然终止美国国际开发署的运作——结束了对非洲国家数十亿美元的支持，易卜拉欣将其描述为“残酷的”。
The continent faces fresh challenges in the coming years, not least in the wake of Washington’s decision last year to suddenly terminate USAID – ending billions of dollars of support to African countries – which Ibrahim described as “brutal”.
他说：“当然，美国给不给援助是它的特权。但请提前通知。”我们需要更多地依靠自己。并与所有愿意与非洲合作的伙伴合作，无论是欧洲、中国、印度还是任何人莫·易卜拉欣迄今为止，非洲已被证明对这些削减具有相当大的韧性，这迫使该大陆“面对现实”。
“Of course, it is a prerogative of US to give aid or not,” he said. “But please give notice.”We need to depend more on ourselves. And work with all partners willing to work with Africa, whether Europe, China, India, whoeverMo Ibrahim Africa has proved fairly resilient so far to the cuts, and it has forced the continent “to face reality”.
易卜拉欣说：“我们需要更多地依靠自己。我们需要与所有愿意与非洲合作的伙伴合作，无论是欧洲、中国、印度还是任何人。”
“We need to depend more on ourselves. And we need to work with all partners who are willing to work with Africa, whether it is Europe, whether China or India or whoever,” said Ibrahim.
他的希望一如既往地寄托在该大陆庞大的年轻人口上。目前，60%的非洲人年龄在25岁以下，到2050年，全球每三个年轻人中就有一个是非洲人。
His hope lies, as always, in the continent’s huge youth population. Already 60 per cent of Africans are under 25, and by 2050 one in three young people worldwide will be African.
易卜拉欣说：“他们比上一代人拥有更多的信息，受到更好的教育。我必须承认，我们这一代人毁了非洲。我们真的错失了一些机遇。”
“They are much better informed, much better educated than the past generation,” said Ibrahim. “We wasted Africa, our generation, I must admit that. We really wasted some opportunities.”