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Stopping the haemorrhage: The case for a global framework to stem illicit financial flows from Africa

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The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted structural inequalities in the global economy while exposing vulnerabilities on the African continent, including pervasive illicit financial flows (IFFs) depriving countries of resources that could go toward financing their development. To end this financial haemorrhage, a global framework against IFFs must be established.

African Heads of State and Government Climate Finance Dialogue concludes, mobilizing greater alignment of public-private finance mandate for Africa

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New York, 4 October 2022 – Creating an environment primed to boost access to private investment, while delivering greater alignment for public-private finance mandate towards fast-tracking the participation of private capital in Africa’s green transition, the African Heads of State and Government-Institutional Investor Climate Finance Dialogue concluded on the margins of the High-Level Segment of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.