{"id":12851,"date":"2022-01-26T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=12851"},"modified":"2022-01-26T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T15:32:24","slug":"mozambique-ngo-calls-for-new-penalties-to-combat-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-ngo-calls-for-new-penalties-to-combat-corruption","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: NGO calls for new penalties to combat corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Mozambique\u2019s Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), a non-governmental organisation, said on Wednesday that criminal measures to combat corruption were lacking in the country, in commenting on the results of the 2021 Corruption Perception Index published by Transparency International (TI).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith an incipient anti-corruption penal reaction, Mozambique does not take off for the better in Transparency International\u2019s Corruption Perception Index (CPI),\u201d the CIP said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>After scoring 25 points in 2020, last year Mozambique \u201cmoved up only one place in the index, having scored 26 points, on a scale of 0 to 100,\u201d the CIP notes.<\/p>\n<p>The TI index was released on Tuesday in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>According to CIP, \u201cthe rise of one point does not reveal major changes in perceptions\u201d and reveals stagnation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMozambique is practically stationary, below 30 points (in 2015), occupying place 147 in a ranking where the most corrupt in the world occupies place 180,\u201d it concludes.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read: Mozambique: Country rises two places to 147th in Corruption Perceptions Index<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Transparency International has warned Mozambique that there must be concerted efforts to support \u201ctransparency and accountability\u201d to stop the country entering a \u201cdownward spiral,\u201d in the words of Mokgabo Kupe, its advisor for southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Corruption Perception Index ranks 180 countries and territories by the levels of perceived corruption in the public sector, on a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 points (free of perception of corruption).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. 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