Gambia ‘drowning’ in global corruption poll

Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh is presiding over an increasingly corrupt country/here he speaks to journalists in Nov 2011/PHOTO/AFP

Fighting against corruption : Transparency International really independent?

(The Daily IIJ) ‘Your country has been placed among the highly corrupt countries in the world because it doesn’t contribute (to TI’s budget)’. This joking statement addressed by an African journalist to his Afghan colleague after a conference on Transparency International (TI) in Berlin illustrates perfectly the suspicion prejudice many people may have about TI.