Within the framework of Partners for Transparency’s keenness to consolidate the values of integrity and transparency, and to support anti-corruption efforts in African countries, the Foundation’s African Anti-Corruption Observatory Unit issued its first monthly report for the month of February, in order to track and highlight the violations that occurred, and the efforts made by them. Countries during this month, for 25 countries distributed over the five regions of the continent, in the various sectors of the countries, which included the health sector, the police, financial crimes, bribery, child trafficking and violations related to the rotation of power.
The study reached a number of results, among which are the presence of corruption related to political considerations such as the rotation of power, the integrity of the elections, violence related to the electoral process and the constitutional texts in a number of countries, including Niger, Tunisia and Tanzania. Africa and Malawi.
Corruption was also present in the health sectors - despite the spread of the Corona pandemic - and the police, in a number of countries in different regions of the continent, such as Ghana, Zambia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
The Partners for Transparency Foundation recommends that African countries activate the texts of international agreements that have signed and ratified them in order to tackle corruption, especially the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption, and also recommends the necessity of imposing more control over the health and police sectors, which are the most secretive. The incidents of corruption during the month of February, as well as stressing the need to search for the reasons that lead public officials to search for illegal profits, as well as looking into policies for the distribution of wages in the various sectors
