Outgoing Namibian president Hifikepunye Pohamba has won the 2014 Ibrahim prize for achievement in African leadership. Pohamba has been recognized for his focus in forging national cohesion and reconciliation at a key stage of Namibia’s consolidation of democracy and social and economic development. The prize committee of the Ibrahim foundation assesses democratically elected former executive heads of states from African countries who have served their term in office within the limits set by their country’s constitution and have left office within the last three years.