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Now on the BBC World Service Pascal Harder presents the second in her series

Extremes of Corruption. In part one she looked at Sweden, a country

routinely ranked as one of the least corrupt by the anti-corruption

transparancy international. Here she looks at the other extreme

Somalia. I'm Pascal Harder. For the BBC series

Extremes World I've reported from Sweden, a country with

such a transparent government that it's hard to be corrupt.

Today I'm looking at a country with the opposite reputation.

Somalia, it barely has a government. The means of doing business

in Somalia are more difficult and involve a degree of corruption

that doesn't exist elsewhere. I'm asking can you avoid corruption

in such a failed state? And to help us do that

we need to look at Somalia's biggest business, humanitarian aid.

It's worth more than four hundred million dollars a year.

The UN agencies, NGOs and others working in Somalia

take exceptionally high personal risks to ensure that food

gets through to people in need. And it causes the UN

main aid distributor concern. It's conducted investigation

after investigation into what happens to that money.

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