SOMALIA
Worst Bad, Meet Least Bad
The global fight against corruption is arguably at its apex – thanks to the worldwide battle against the financing of terrorism, revelations about offshore accounts from watchdogs and whistleblowers, and populist movements across the globe.
But in a report that revealed Somalia as the most corrupt country in the world, Transparency International found that some 6 billion people still live under graft-plagued governments, and nearly 70 percent of countries scored less than 50 percent on its 2017 corruption index, the Economist reported.
Somalia scored a measly 9 out of 100 – 100 being “very clean” – while TI reckons the least corrupt country in the world to be New Zealand, with a score of 89.
Perhaps more surprising, the watchdog group found a clear inverse relationship between corruption and free speech, the Economist noted. Nine out of every ten journalists killed since 2012 were in countries that scored less than 45, while Bahrain, which suffered the biggest drop on the index over last year, shut down the country’s only independent newspaper in June.
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