The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption

The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption was issued on 11 July 2003 in Mozambique. The convention was activated in 5 August 2006 when it was signed by 41 of the member Sates of the Union, and the last country signed on the pact was Malawi in 27 December 2007.
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The convention came as an implementation of the basic principles of the African Union which are: justice, equality, protection of human rights, and application of democratic principles, good governance, and the rule of law. The general goal of the pact is to protect communities from the negative impacts of the corrupt practices.
The convention establishes cooperation between African governments and the various sections of civil society organizations to unite while combating corruption, the aims of the convention are:
• Support development in Africa through providing the necessary mechanisms for preventing, uncovering, and punishing corrupt practices within both the public and the private sectors.
• Develop, facilitate, and coordinate cooperation between the member States to have the efficient procedures while preventing, revealing, and eradicating corruption throughout Africa.
• Organize policies and legislations between African countries in order to stop, uncover, and combat corruption crimes in the African continent.
• Improve social and economic status through removing the obstacles that stands against practicing the social, economic, cultural, civil and political rights.
• Provide the suitable environment for raising transparency and accountability principles within the administrations of public affairs.
The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption consists of 28 articles, and contains definitions serving the main goals of the pact, such definitions are: corruption, the executive council, and the private sector.
One of the articles of the convention states certain concepts by which the member States must comply with, such concepts are transparency and development of social justice, other articles of the pact consider laws and legislations which the member states should adopt, and other articles explain laws of anti-money laundering, access to information, juridical authorities, Civil Society Organizations, and media.

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