With this convention, composed by 28 articles, the Member States of the African Union set the common objectives of the promotion and development in Africa of mechanisms required to prevent, detect, punish and eradicate corruption and related offences in the public and private sectors, regulate cooperation among the State Parties to ensure the effectiveness of relevant measures and actions, coordinate and harmonize the policies and legislation between State Parties, promote socio-economic development by removing obstacles to the enjoyment of economic, social, cultural and civil and political rights, establish the necessary conditions to foster transparency and accountability in the management of public affairs. To reach these objectives legislative and other measures are adopted by the Member States aimed at establishing some corrupted behaviour as criminal offences: laundering, illicit enrichment, funding of political parties, The text sets up the principles that the State Parties undertake to abide and describes the acts and offences to which the convention is applicable. The text further establishes the jurisdiction of each State Party over acts of corruption and related offences and describes the measures the Members States can count on to fight corruption such as extradition, confiscation, seizeres, international cooperation etc.
安哥拉, 布隆迪, 贝宁, 布基纳法索, 博茨瓦纳, 中非共和国, 科特迪瓦, 喀麦隆, 刚果民主共和国, 刚果, 科摩罗, 佛得角, 吉布提, 阿尔及利亚, 埃及, 厄立特里亚, 埃塞俄比亚, 加蓬, 加纳, 几内亚, 冈比亚, 几内亚比绍, 赤道几内亚, 肯尼亚, 利比里亚, 利比亚, 莱索托, 摩洛哥, 马达加斯加, 马里, 莫桑比克, 毛里塔尼亚, 毛里求斯, 马拉维, 纳米比亚, 尼日尔, 尼日利亚, 卢旺达, 苏丹, 塞内加尔, 塞拉利昂, 索马里, 圣多美和普林西比, 斯威士兰, 塞舌尔, 乍得, 多哥, 突尼斯, 坦桑尼亚联合共和国, 乌干达, 南非, 赞比亚, 津巴布韦 · 2003-07-11