MONROVIA, LIBERIA-Liberia has moved from the twenty-ninth to the twenty-eighth spot in Sub-Saharan Africa on Transparency International’s Annual-Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

The latest score means that Liberia’s corruption fight is improving, despite the menace being a serious threat in every part of the world.

Scoring one hundred eighty-two countries around the world, the CPI is the leading global indicator of public sector corruption.

According to the report, Liberia has a score of twenty-eight this year, with a change of one since last year.

The country is ranked one hundred thirty-six out of one hundred eighty-two countries across the world.

Transparency International, in the report, urged leaders to act and tackle abuses of power and the wider factors driving decline, such as the roll-back of democratic checks and balances, and attacks on independent civil society.

It said anti-government protests in many parts of the world show that people are fed up with unaccountable leadership and are demanding reform.

The index ranks one hundred eighty-two countries and territories worldwide by their perceived levels of public sector corruption.

The results are given on a scale of zero, which is highly corrupt, to one hundred, very clean.