Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Somalia, South Sudan, Libya, Equatorial Guinea, and 10 others top Corruption Perceptions Index list of Africa’s Most Corrupt Countries in 2022 and 2023.
Africa’s Most Corrupt Countries
1. Somalia
2. South Sudan
3. Libya
4. Equatorial Guinea
5. Burundi
6. Comoros
7. Chad
8. DR Congo
9. Guinea-Bissau
10. Congo Brazzaville
11. Sudan
12. Eritrea
13. Zimbabwe
14. Nigeria
Source: 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index.
Most Corrupt Countries In Africa: The 2021 reports from Transparency International on Africa’s corruption index is quite detailed and the opposite of encouraging, especially that of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) of many countries rise and fall in the face of various factors including the coronavirus pandemic and economice decline.
Transparency International recently released its latest annual Corruption Perception Index report. A copy of the report, which was seen by Business Insider Africa, showed that 90% of the 180 countries surveyed scored below 50. Interestingly, 44 of these countries with very low corruption index scores are in Africa. We shall be focusing on them shortly.
Transparency International uses the corruption perception index to rank countries around the world on a scale of zero to 100; with zero being the most corrupt and 100 being the least corrupt. The index has been tracking public sector corruption across the world since 1995.
It should be noted that the latest CPI report showed that the average index score in Africa is 33; the lowest in the world.
With COVID-19 came a fresh spread of economic hardship, in addition to exposing the more corruption loopholes in the system. People were told to stay at home by an order of lockdown, and the sick and infected ones among them did not all have access to proper medical care, due to the very poor healthcare systems in place. Despite the fact that this happened as a result of misuse of appropriated funds, a typical example of corruption in modern day Africa, the corruption rate continued to rise, fuelled and fanned to greater heights by the economic decline. Things were so difficult and harsh for many that riots, revolts and protests broke out in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially during the pandemic.
Sub-Saharan Africa comprises of countries such as Burundi, Seychelles, Nigeria, Cameroun, Kenya, Cape Verde, Lesotho, the Gambia, Djibouti, Ghana, Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia, etc. which lie to the South of the Sahara desert. They have been recorded to have the lowest Corruption Perception Index in the whole of Africa, show little or no signs of improvement and is in need of speedy intervention.
