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Africa Rates High in World Corruption Rankings
BOTSWANA AFRICA'S BEST PLACED, SOMALIA WORST IN WORLD.
Africa maintained its reputation for corruption in the latest World Corruption Rankings released by Transparency International recently.
No African country made it amongst the twenty least corrupt in the world, while Somalia has the dubious honour of being the world's most corrupt.
The majority of African countries can be found towards the dishonourable end of the index, ensuring lots of material for editorial cartoonists across the continent.
[Read further for a full list of African rankings] 
The least corrupt countries according to the Dec 2012 survey are: Denmark, Finland, New Zealand (all tied in first place), Sweden, Singapore, Switzerland with both Australia and Norway tied in 7th place.
Other notable rankings are: Germany (ranked 13th), UK (17th), USA (19th), France (22nd), Portugal (33rd), Brazil (69th), China (80th), India (94th), Russia (133rd).
The highest ranking (perceived to be least corrupt) African state is Botswana (ranked 30th), and Somalia is the lowest ranked in the world, in position 174. Here's the full list of African states, with their scores in brackets.
30 Botswana (65)
39 Cape Verde (60)
43 Mauritius (57)
50 Rwanda (53)
51 Seychelles (52)
58 Namibia (48)
64 Ghana (45)
64 Lesotho (45)
69 South Africa (43)
72 Sao Tome &P (42)
75 Liberia (41)
75 Tunisia (41)
83 Burkina Faso (38)
88 Malawi (37)
88 Morocco (37)
88 Swaziland (37)
88 Zambia (37)
94 Benin (36)
94 Djibouti (36)
94 Senegal (36)
102 Gabon (35)
102 Tanzania (35)
105 Algeria (34)
105 Gambia (34)
105 Mali (34)
113 Ethiopia (33)
113 Niger (33)
118 Egypt (32)
118 Madagascar (32)
123 Mauritania (31)
123 Mozambique (31)
123 Sierra Leone (31)
130 Cote d’ Ivoire (29)
130 Uganda (29)
133 Comoros (28)
139 Kenya (27)
139 Nigeria (27)
144 Cameroon (26)
144 Central African Rep
144 Congo Repub. (26)
150 Eritrea (25)
150 Guinea-Bissau (25)
154 Guinea (24)
157 Angola (22)
160 DRC - Congo (21)
160 Libya (21)
163 Equat. Guinea (20)
163 Zimbabwe (20)
165 Burundi (19)
165 Chad (19)
173 Sudan (13)
174 Somalia (8)
