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Somalia which has been ranked for ten consecutive years by the watchdog Transparency International as the most corrupt country in the world.
President, Somalia receives upward of a billion dollars annually in aid, yet Transparency International has ranked Somalia as the world’s most corrupt country for well over a decade, more corrupt even than Syria, Iraq, Venezuela, Yemen and Afghanistan. “Bribery, stealing of public funds, and profiteering by authorities is an everyday fact of life” in Somalia, it found.
Do you believe Transparency International’s assessment of Somalia is wrong? If so, why? If Transparency International’s findings are correct, however, does that signal that the federal government of Somalia lacks capacity to manage the aid it receives?
Somali federal government leaders and ministers has private overseas bank accounts most aid properly will end up private bank European and U.S. taxpayers support sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Mogadishu when most of it is wasted and when corruption remains rampant.