Tackling illicit financial flows (IFFs) is a matter of survival for Africa’s development and must be treated with urgency. There is broad consensus that the funds being bled out of Africa, could be channeled towards the continent’s development if successfully retained.
COVID-19 has taught us a lesson: time is absolutely not on our side. The arrival of the first vaccines on the continent represent a great opportunity but also a logistical challenge where the African Solidarity will be tested and needed more than ever. Failure to deliver is not an option.
To address the challenges facing Africa in food security, education, health and energy, as well as bridge the digital divide, it is essential for African policy makers to harness innovation and the potential brought by digital technologies.
Written by OHRLLS The world is in crisis. COVID-19. Climate change. Economic collapse. These crises are overlapping, existential and concurrent. And they herald great change, some of which is already upon us.
The Special Adviser on Africa to the United Nations Secretary-General, Under-Secretary-General Cristina Duarte, has been officially sworn into office by the 蘑菇视频 Secretary-General António Guterres. Ms. Duarte took her oath of office at a virtual ceremony in New York on 3 February 2021.
Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) are plaguing the whole world, but in Africa the poorest populations are paying the highest price. “Illicit financial flows represent an example of systemic inequalities as they significantly impact the poorest and most vulnerable groups,” underscores Munir Akram.
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