{"id":223506,"date":"2026-02-11T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-inches-up-on-global-corruption-index-but-watchdog-warns-progress-too-slow\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:07:30","slug":"liberia-inches-up-on-global-corruption-index-but-watchdog-warns-progress-too-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-inches-up-on-global-corruption-index-but-watchdog-warns-progress-too-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Inches Up On Global Corruption Index, but Watchdog Warns &#8211; Progress Too Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>Published:<\/em> February 10, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\"><strong>MONROVIA<\/strong> &#8212; Liberia has recorded a marginal improvement on Transparency International&#8217;s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), climbing one point to score 28 out of 100 and ranking 136th out of 182 countries, but leading anti-corruption watchdog CENTAL says the gain is far too modest to signal meaningful reform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia (CENTAL) described the improvement as &#8220;marginal progress,&#8221; warning that without bolder and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110071.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>Published: February 10, 2026 MONROVIA &#8212; Liberia has recorded a marginal improvement on Transparency International&#8217;s 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), climbing one point to score 28 out of 100 and ranking 136th out of 182 countries, but leading anti-corruption watchdog CENTAL says the gain is far too modest to signal meaningful reform. The Center for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580304:db0b4ce3b1b83edb5c7efa99fd14502e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4723,6212,19020,5222,4712,1107,257,943,7756,254,6853,22038],"class_list":["post-223506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-global","tag-inches","tag-index","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-progress","tag-slow","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns","tag-watchdog"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580304:db0b4ce3b1b83edb5c7efa99fd14502e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223506","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=223506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}