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    Ghana is 4th Most Peaceful Country in Africa

    Posted On 24 Jun 2019
    By : New Africa Business News, Staff Correspondent
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    BY YESMAN ANTOH-

     

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    NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS, Accra, Ghana- GHANA CAME 4th after Mauritius, Botswana and Malawi respectively as the most peaceful country in Africa in the latest Global Peace Index.

    On the globe, Ghana ranked 44th with Iceland leading the overall chart as the most ‘peaceful’ nation on earth in the 2019 Global Peace Index.

    In addition, the world’s overall ‘peacefulness’ has improved for the first time in five years – although only marginally.

    Afghanistan was bottom of the list, moving below even Syria, while South Sudan, Yemen and Iraq were all in the bottom five.

    The report measures the ‘peacefulness’ of 163 countries with a range of measures including military spending and deaths from conflict and terrorism, as well as an estimated economic cost of violence.

    Iceland, often portrayed as an idyllic Nordic paradise, came first in the rankings for the 12th year in a row as researchers praised the country’s falling murder rate and increase in funding to UN peacekeeping.

    ‘The strong institutions, attitudes and structures of peace that Iceland maintains has bolstered the country’s resilience against small internal shocks,’ they said.

    New Zealand came second, as the report’s authors noted the violence of the Christchurch mosque attack but said the country had improved other scores and developed a ‘resilience’ to cope with such disasters.

    Portugal was third, and Austria fourth despite an increase in ‘likelihood of violent demonstrations’ after a far-right party joined the government.

    Denmark was fifth, with European nations dominating the top of the list.

    ‘Europe remains the most peaceful region in the world and it recorded a very slight improvement in peacefulness after several years of deterioration,’ the report said.

    ‘However, despite these improvements, the broader political environment in Europe remains uncertain, and resurgent nationalism and terrorism remain significant threats to peace.’

    Brexit was also mentioned, as researchers said the UK ‘continues to struggle with its plan for exiting the European Union’ in what they called a ‘mixed’ year for international relations.

    Japan scored highly among leading world powers, coming in as the world’s 9th-most peaceful country.

    Germany was 22nd, the United Kingdom 45th and France 60th, while the United States dropped four places to 128th.

    The report’s authors cited ‘growing political polarization’ in America, adding that tensions had grown between Washington and Iran.

    ‘Confidence in US leadership has fallen the most in the past five years, with people now having more confidence in China than the US on average,’ they noted.

    Australia’s score also fell slightly, as researchers said the country had increased its military expenditure and weapons imports.

    Russia scored badly, coming 10th from bottom, below North Korea.

    Afghanistan was bottom, scoring even worse than Syria, where ISIS was swept out of its last patch of territory earlier this year.

    ‘Despite the improvement this year, the world remains considerably less peaceful now than a decade ago,’ the report’s authors said.

    ‘A wide range of factors drove the fall in peacefulness over the past decade including increased terrorist activity, the intensification of conflicts in the Middle East, rising regional tensions in Eastern Europe and northeast Asia, increasing numbers of refugees, and heightened political tensions in Europe and the U.S.,’ they explained.

    The slight uptick in peacefulness this year was partly fueled by a reduction in military spending, the report found.

    Seventy-two of the countries studied had reduced their level of military expenditure as a share of GDP.

    There were also particular regional improvements, including in North Macedonia which struck an agreement with Greece to settle the long-running name dispute between the countries.

    There was also an easing of the conflict in Ukraine, where fewer lives were lost.

    Not all countries were included in the rankings, with small European nations such as Luxembourg and Liechtenstein among those left out.

    The full list of countries in the 2019 Global Peace Index

    1. Iceland
    2. New Zealand
    3. Portugal
    4. Austria
    5. Denmark
    6. Canada
    7. Singapore
    8. Slovenia
    9. Japan
    10. Czech Republic
    11. Switzerland
    12. Ireland
    13. Australia
    14. Finland
    15. Bhutan
    16. Malaysia
    17. Netherlands
    18. Belgium
    19. Sweden
    20. Norway
    21. Hungary
    22. Germany
    23. Slovakia
    24. Mauritius
    25. Romania
    26. Bulgaria
    27. Chile
    28. Croatia
    29. Poland
    30. Botswana
    31. Qatar
    32. Spain
    33. Costa Rica
    34. Uruguay
    35. Latvia
    36. Taiwan
    37. Estonia
    38. Lithuania
    39. Italy
    40. Malawi
    41. Indonesia
    42. Mongolia
    43. Kuwait
    44. Ghana
    45. United Kingdom
    46. Laos
    47. Panama
    48. Timor-Leste
    49. Zambia
    50. Serbia
    51. Albania
    52. Sierra Leone
    53. United Arab Emirates
    54. Tanzania
    55. South Korea
    56. Madagascar
    57. Vietnam
    58. Senegal
    59. Liberia
    60. France
    61. Namibia
    62. The Gambia
    63. Cyprus
    64. Kazakhstan
    65. Greece
    66. North Macedonia
    67. Montenegro
    68. Moldova
    69. Oman
    70. Equatorial Guinea
    71. Ecuador
    72. Benin
    73. Sri Lanka
    74. Eswatini
    75. Argentina
    76. Nepal
    77. Angola
    78. Jordan
    79. Rwanda
    80. Peru
    81. Bosnia and Herzegovina
    82. Tunisia
    83. Jamaica
    84. Dominican Republic
    85. Bolivia
    86. Kosovo
    87. Haiti
    88. Paraguay
    89. Cambodia
    90. Morocco
    91. Cuba
    92. Guyana
    93. Trinidad and Tobago
    94. Mozambique
    95. Kyrgyz Republic
    96. Gabon
    97. Belarus
    98. Papua New Guinea
    99. Georgia
    100. Guinea
    101. Bangladesh
    102. Uzbekistan
    103. Lesotho
    104. Burkina Faso
    105. Tajikistan
    106. Uganda
    107. Cote d’ Ivoire
    108. Togo
    109. Djibouti
    110. China
    111. Algeria
    112. Guinea-Bissau
    113. El Salvador
    114. Guatemala
    115. Turkmenistan
    116. Brazil
    117. Thailand
    118. Armenia
    119. Kenya
    120. Nicaragua
    121. Republic of the Congo
    122. Mauritania
    123. Honduras
    124. Bahrain
    125. Myanmar
    126. Niger
    127. South Africa
    128. United States of America
    129. Saudi Arabia
    130. Azerbaijan
    131. Ethiopia
    132. Zimbabwe
    133. Eritrea
    134. Philippines
    135. Burundi
    136. Egypt
    137. Chad
    138. Cameroon
    139. Iran
    140. Mexico
    141. India
    142. Palestine
    143. Colombia
    144. Venezuela
    145. Mali
    146. Israel
    147. Lebanon
    148. Nigeria
    149. North Korea
    150. Ukraine
    151. Sudan
    152. Turkey
    153. Pakistan
    154. Russia
    155. Democratic Republic of the Congo
    156. Libya
    157. Central African Republic
    158. Somalia
    159. Iraq
    160. Yemen
    161. South Sudan
    162. Syria
    163. Afghanistan

    Source: Global Peace Index

    BY YESMAN ANTOH, NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS, BUSINESS & POLITICS, GLOBAL CORRESPONDENT

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