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Bushiris’ extradition tests Malawi’s commitment to fight corruption By Molaole Montsho Share Rustenburg - The extradition of self-proclaimed Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri, who is accused of money laundering in South Africa, is a test of Malawis commitment to anti-corruption, said Transparency International. According to Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released last week, Malawi scored 30, dropping by seven points since 2012. The global ant...

Story highlights The Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the perception of public sector corruption according to experts and business people, has carried out the study.  According to a closely-watched annual study by an anti-graft organization, countries with the least corruption are highly likely to weather the health and economic challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.  The Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index, which m...

‘Prophet’ Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary appear before the CRL Commission last week. African News Agency (ANA) Rustenburg – The extradition of self-proclaimed Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri, who is accused of money laundering in South Africa, is a test of Malawi’s commitment to anti-corruption, said Transparency International. According to Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released last week, Malawi scored 30, dropping by seven points since 20...

Malaysia’s anti-corruption efforts received a blow last week when the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) revealed that it had fallen six spots to No 57 in the global rankings. It was only last year that the country earned its best score in seven years, scoring 53 out of 100 points, and the then government was lauded for putting it on the right track in its battle against graft. While much has been said about the worsening corruption situation, is anything actually being done? After all, ...

US Corruption Hits Highest Since 2012 Amid COVID Bailouts & Democracy Doubts Published: February 1, 2021 Transparency International has released its 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index which gauges levels of perceived public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The index scores them on a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (clean) with the average score just 43 out of 100. As Statistas Niall McCarthy notes,  two thirds of countries scored less than 50. The re...

Greece rose one place in the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index Search for: Greece rose by one place in the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) in 2020. According to Transparency International, Greece is in 59th place among 180 countries with a score of 50 points, one place higher compared to 2019. The index captures the level corruption in 180 countries, using a scale from 0 to 100. 0 corresponds to countries where there is a high level of corruption, and 100 to countries with a low level...

The Federal Government has rubbished the latest report by the Transparency International (TI) on Corruption Perceptions Index in Nigeria. Recall that

The coincidence is instructive. Barely 24 hours after Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, last Wednesday, carpeted the Federal Government for allegedly giving up on the battle against corruption, the Transparency International (TI) released its annual global corruption index whose fatwa aligned with Soyinka’s verdict. Soyinka, while appearing on Africa Independent Television (AIT’s) morning magazine programme, Kakaaki, noted that the system had been so corrupted that cases are allowed to ex...

Kuwait climbs seven spots on corruption index KUWAIT: Kuwait’s ranking improved by seven spots on Transparency International’s annual 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index, registering improvements made on tackling corruption in the country since 2019, Kuwait’s Anti-Corruption Authority (Nazaha) said. Kuwait scored an additional two points climbing to 42 on the CPI, which ranks 180 countries on their respective corruption levels, with a score of 100 reflecting freedom from corruption and zero...

Mexico gains 2 points on transparency index, but impunity an obstacle Corruption Perceptions Index ranks Mexico 124th out of 180 countries Published on Friday, January 29, 2021 62shares There is slightly less corruption in Mexico today than there was a year ago, according to the non-governmental organization Transparency International. Mexico rose six places on the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) to rank 124th out of 180 countries, sharing its position with Pakistan, Bolivia, Kyrgyzs...