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Middle East and North Africa: a region in turmoil

3 December 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Aid, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Asset recovery, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Defence and Security, Human rights, Impunity, Oil and gas, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Private sector, Whistleblowing

Three out of the bottom 10 countries on Transparency International’s 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index are from the Middle East and North Africa. Two of these three are in the midst of gruesome civil wars where lives are being lost daily. Iraq and Libya tell a story of a region in turmoil plagued with geopolitical insecurity, […]

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