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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a meeting of the German Federal Parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP) Men wearing masks chat outside the hotel where a team of experts from the World Health Organization are quarantined in Wuhan in centra Chinas Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) A traveler wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronav...

The Media Line Staff 01/28/2021 The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released Thursday by Transparency International shows that persistent corruption in some countries is undermining health care systems ability to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a loss of democratic norms. The index ranked some 180 countries. The United Arab Emirates achieved the highest spot on the list for countries in the Middle East and northern Africa at 21. This is followed by Qatar at 30 and Israe...

PREMIUM! Corruption Watch director David Lewis speaks to the media at the launch of the water report titled Money down the Drain: corruption in South Africa’s water sector, 12 March 2020. Picture: Tracy Lee Stark The appalling 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) results released by Transparency International on Thursday emphasises the extent to which corruption has affected the ability of countries to monitor their health...

Corruption Perceptions Index 2020 global info-graphic (Transparency International) In the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates (21st globally, with 71 points) and Qatar (30th, with 63 points) were found to be the least corrupt, with Israel third. The results mean Israel is falling closer to the “red line” of 50 points, below which countries are defined by the index has having “a high level of corruption,” Transparency International’s Israel chapter said in a statement. Former judge N...

Urges govt to tackle security sector corruption, nepotism, others By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja As economic recession continue to bite harder and inflation skyrocketing, Transparency International, TI, Thursday, disclosed that Nigeria ranked 149 on Corruption Perception Index 2020 out of 183 countries. This was contained in a publication by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, and made available to Vanguard, which indicated that Nigeria again recorded a decline in the CPI in 2020...

This year’s index showed the United States hitting a new low amid a steady decline under the presidency of Donald Trump, with a score of 67 on a scale where 0 is “highly corrupt” and 100 is “very clean.” That still put the U.S. 25th on the list in a tie with Chile, but behind many other western democracies. It dropped from scores of 69 in 2019, 71 in 2018 and 75 in 2017, and was down to the lowest level since figures for comparison have been available. “In addition to alleged confli...

Reporter THE PHILIPPINES slipped two spots in a global corruption index released on Thursday by Transparency International, which noted widespread corruption has weakened many countries’ response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2020, the Philippines was tied with Moldova at 115 th place out of 180 countries or territories. The Philippines retained its score of 34 out of 100 in a scale that measures perceived levels of public secto...

A World Health Organisation team has emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic. The researchers, who were required to complete 14 days in quarantine after arriving in China, left their quarantine hotel and boarded a bus in the afternoon. The mission has become politically charged as China seeks to avoid blame for alleged missteps in its early response to the outbreak. A major questio...

BERLIN (AP) — Countries with the least corruption have been best positioned to weather the health and economic challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a closely-watched annual study released Thursday by an anti-graft organization. Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the perception of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, concluded that countries that performed well invested more in health care, were “bett...

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