2023 Corruption Perception Index: Senegal’s Score and Efforts to Combat Corruption

2024-01-30 11:29:31

The results of the 2023 corruption perception index, published around the world this Tuesday by Transparency International, represented in Senegal by the Civil Forum, show that “Senegal is still plunging into the red zone with a score of 43 /100”.

According to the Civil Forum, this chronic “institutional immobility” in the fight against corruption noted in our declaration on the results of the 2022 IPC published January 31, 2023 is, however, attenuated by the adoption of several prevention and fight against corruption, in particular the adoption, by the National Assembly, of a law modifying the code of criminal procedure for the establishment of a National Financial Prosecutor’s Office and two other adoptions of bills in the Council of Ministers to fight against corruption and money laundering.

It is to be deplored, particularly in the context of the prevention of corruption, “the absence of a law on access to information, the absence of texts on the supervision of electoral campaign financing and the financing political parties”. The Civil Forum, headed by Birahime Seck, adds that “the adoption of a national anti-corruption strategy in 2020 has not, until then, made a great contribution to the fight against corruption in term of effectiveness and implementation…”

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