President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department.
1. SOMALIA
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaking to government officials.
2. NORTH KOREA
Hamid Karzai reviews troops of the first graduating class equipped with Russian Mosin–Nagant rifles, for the 1st Battalion, Afghan National Army (ANA), during a ceremony held at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan
3. AFGHANISTAN
Sudanese president Omar al Bashir arrives in the southern capital of Juba.
4. SUDAN
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Burmese President U Thein Sein at the Office of the President in Naypyidaw, Burma, on December 1, 2011.
5. BURMA
President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov.
6. UZBEKISTAN
Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, President of Turkmenistan, addresses the general debate of the sixty-fourth session of the UN General Assembly.
7. TUKMENISTAN
Inside of the Baghdad Convention Center, where the Council of Representatives of Iraq (parliament) meets. This photo shows delegates from all over Iraq convening for the Iraqi National Conference.
8. IRAQ
Nicolás Maduro, interim President of Venezuela following the death of Hugo Chávez.
9. VENEZUELA
The Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, shows signs of severe damage after a potent earthquake on 12 January 2010 laid waste to the Haitian capital.
10. HAITI
It should come as no surprise that some of the world’s most most politically, economically, and socially unstable countries are also the most corrupt. Transparency International published a list of the world’s countries in December 2012 and ranked them according to their levels of corruption.
According to the organization’s website, “We know corruption is a problem around the world. But how bad is it and what can be done? The Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in countries worldwide. Based on expert opinion, countries are scored from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Some countries score well, but no country scores a perfect 100. Two-thirds of the 176 countries ranked in the 2012 index score below 50, showing that public institutions need to be more transparent, and powerful officials more accountable.”
Global Conflict Analysis presents the Top Ten Most Corrupt Countries:
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