Botswana least corrupt in Africa � report

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Botswana has once again emerged as the least corrupt country in Africa according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2015 released on Wednesday. Botswana is ranked 28th out of 168 countries worldwide with a score of 68/100. This is despite an outcry that institutions tasked with fighting corruption are toothless or sleeping on their mandate.

The index covers perceptions of public sector corruption in 168 countries. Based on expert opinion from around the world, the Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide. Not one of the 168 countries assessed in the 2015 index gets a perfect score and two-thirds score below 50, on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). More than 6 billion people live in a country with a serious corruption problem. Sub Saharan Africa scored an average of 33 while the global average score is 43.

Sub-Saharan Africa faced a myriad of threats in 2015, from the Ebola epidemic to rising terrorism.

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