{"id":191269,"date":"2025-02-13T02:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-baby-steps-forward-in-liberias-fight-against-corruption\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T02:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:35:40","slug":"liberia-baby-steps-forward-in-liberias-fight-against-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-baby-steps-forward-in-liberias-fight-against-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Baby Steps Forward in Liberia&#8217;s Fight Against Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Transparency International 2024 Report calls it &#8220;a step in the right direction, but &#8230; far from enough to break the cycle of corruption&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Liberia has made a slight improvement in Transparency International&#8217;s (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2024, rising two points from 25 in 2023 to 27 in 2024. This marks the first time in seven years that the country has registered a positive movement in the rankings, reflecting marginal progress in efforts to curb corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">However, despite this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502120315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency International 2024 Report calls it &#8220;a step in the right direction, but &#8230; far from enough to break the cycle of corruption&#8230;&#8221; Liberia has made a slight improvement in Transparency International&#8217;s (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2024, rising two points from 25 in 2023 to 27 in 2024. This marks the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7331,4723,4345,4712,1107,8536,257,254,9150],"class_list":["post-191269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baby","tag-corruption","tag-fight","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steps"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}