Ti Corruption Perception Index: Ranking same, but ‘graft rose’
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh has been ranked 146th having scored only 26 out of 100 in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2020. It failed to improve both in terms of ranking and score from the previous year.
The country has been placed at the 12th spot from the bottom, two notches worse from the previous index.
The index has been a flagship research of TI, a Berlin-based global graft watchdog, since 1995. This year, the index has been prepared on 180 countries. There have been instances where more than one country secured the same spot as they scored the same.
Nigeria emerges as Africa’s primary export hub for ivory, pangolin scales
by Ashoka Mukpo on 21 January 2021
Increased political buy-in for law enforcement and interdiction efforts at ports in East Africa have pushed wildlife smuggling westward to Nigeria.
Between 1998 and 2014, the top two countries associated with ivory seizures were Tanzania and Kenya. Since 2014, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo have overtaken them.
Corruption at the ports, the involvement of influential politicians, and rural poverty make Nigeria an attractive waypoint for smugglers.
When Singaporean customs officials opened a shipping container en route to Vietnam from Nigeria on April 3, 2019, they found piles of canvas sacks stuffed full of dusty, dried flakes. Packed along with nearly 180 kilograms (400 pounds) of carved elephant ivory, the flakes turned out to be pangolin scales 12.9 metric tons of them. It was the largest seizure of pangolin scales ever recorded, gathered by killing a
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Yesterday State Services Minister Paula Bennett announced New Zealand s second Open
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New Zealand has fallen to fourth place in the Transparency International Corruption
Perceptions Index (CPI). This is its second consecutive drop in a survey it has previously
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