Africa International

Somalia, the world’s most corrupt nation owing to terrorism, armed conflict — study

Somalia sits at the bottom on the list of 180 countries of the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index by Berlin-based corruption watchdog Transparency International, which blames terrorism and armed conflict in the east African country for creating world’s biggest breeding ground for corruption. The never-ending conflict in Somalia remains the leading cause of the runaway corruption, […]

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MENA Region Tops List of Global Conflict Fatalities

The International Institute for Strategic Studies issued its annual Armed Conflict Survey showing that the region of the Middle East and North Africa continues to top the global list of conflict fatalities with 83,000 people dead in 2016. The global think tank with offices in the UK, USA, Asia, and the Middle East, noted that […]