Anti-corruption watchdog
Transparency International has ranked the public sectors in sub-Saharan
Africa as the most corrupt in the world, with two countries hit by
instability - Somalia and South Sudan - topping the list.
Releasing its 2017 Corruption
Perceptions Index, the German-based group says that the majority of
countries in the world are making "little or no progress in ending
corruption".
The index, which ranks 180 countries
and territories based on the perceptions of business sector and experts,
uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very
clean.
This year, New Zealand and Denmark
rank highest with scores of 89 and 88 respectively. Syria, South Sudan
and Somalia rank lowest with scores of 14, 12 and 9 respectively,"
Transparency International says.
"The best performing region is
Western Europe with an average score of 66. The worst performing
regions are sub-Saharan Africa (average score 32) and Eastern Europe and
Central Asia (average score 34)," it adds.
BBC
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