On 11th July 2022, on the occasion of the sixth African Anti-Corruption Day celebrated under the theme : "Strategies and Mechanisms for the Transparent Management of COVID-19 Funds”, Transparency International (TI) through its 28 National Chapters across all of Africa’s Regional Economic Communities wrote an open letter to African Union Leaders calling for strong actions against corruption.
On behalf of 28 chapters, the Executive Director of Transparency International Rwanda (TI-RW), Mr. Apollinaire Mupiganyi together with Mr. Paul Banoba, Regional Advisor at TI Secretariat handed the letter to Hon. Jean Louis Andriamifidy, the Chairperson of the African Union Advisory Board Against Corruption (AUABC) in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Noting that the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly disrupted the livelihoods of African citizens and demanded additional resources be deployed by governments, and that while more resources are needed to address the impact of the pandemic, TI’s 28 African Chapters underscore that “there is need to manage the available resources with greater transparency and accountability.”
African chapters also call for robust actions to protect whistleblowers, stop illicit financial flows from Africa, and call upon all AU member states to ratify the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combatting Corruption (AUCPCC).
Read the full letter here :
Letter to African Union Leaders
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Both African Union Advisory Board Against Corruption (AUABC) and anticorruption and Transparency International share the same commitments to work together through cross regional programs which include "Study on Transparency and Accountability in Covid-19 recovering funds", advocacy to ensure that all countries ratify (AUCPCC by 2023)
African Union and TI also have the duty to change the current status of corruption in Africa, whereby the average of the score is 33%, bad performer compared to other regions (CPI2021).