Africa: African Governments Lack the Will to Fight Corruption

Despite the introduction of a series of measures to fight corruption in East Africa over the past 10 years, the war on graft is being lost, a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) says. "The key reason for failure is a simple lack of political will in the upper reaches of sub-Saharan governments," a paper commissioned by the audit firm last week says. "Governments have paid lip-service to the cause and established anti-corruption commissions, only to render them virtually impotent by creating difficult conditions for commission staffers - low salaries, inadequate support, insufficient funding and others."