More illicit finance leaves Africa than enters through foreign direct investment and aid combined. African countries have a responsibility to fight corruption within Africa. Countries elsewhere in the world, that allow their professional enablers to operate unchecked, have a responsibility to close their doors to money stolen from Africa. 

Join us online for the live-stream of our session from the Mo Ibrahim Governance Weekend on Friday 28 April, 12:00-14:00 GMT+1, where our expert panel will: 

• Examine the evidence and research on the scale and tactics of rogue enablers;
• Highlight the impact of the enabling of illicit finance on African countries;
• Identify examples where source and destination countries working together have been able to address the problem of professional enablers facilitating corruption in Africa;
• Explore concrete solutions to tackle the role of professionals in enabling dirty money from Africa.

Speakers

• Sheila Masinde is Executive Director at Transparency International Kenya and has 19 years’ experience in anti-corruption, governance, programme management, media and outreach.
• Hon. Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed is a Kenyan politician who has represented Kisumu Town East Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the 2007. He is the Chairperson for the Kenyan Chapter of the African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption.
• Professor Attiya Waris is the current UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of states on human rights and is the only professor of fiscal Law and policy in Eastern Africa
• Daniel Bruce is Chief Executive at Transparency International UK. Since 2019 he has overseen TI-UK’s work to reveal the scale of global corruption facilitated by professional services in the UK

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