Mozambique climbed five places to 142nd in the Corruption Perception Index, reaching 26 points on a scale of zero to 100, according to a report released today, which warns of a lack of leadership in the armed forces.
This year's edition of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), drawn up by the non-governmental organization (NGO) Transparency International, points out that in Mozambique, like other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the armed forces are poorly run.
"The lack of good leadership conditions the way in which security challenges are dealt with and their vulnerability to corruption undermines the state's responses," says the NGO, quoted by Lusa.
Mozambique's trend over the last five years has been up three points, but over the last 10 years it has lost five.
The CPI was created by Transparency International in 1995 and has since become a benchmark for analyzing the phenomenon of corruption, based on the perceptions of experts and business executives about the levels of corruption in the public sector.
It is a composite index, i.e. it is the result of combining sources of analysis of corruption developed by other independent organizations, and ranks 180 countries and territories from 0 (perceived as very corrupt) to 100 points (very transparent).
In 2012, the organization revised the methodology used to construct the index so that scores could be compared from one year to the next.
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