UN agencies must walk the talk to tackle illicit outflows

Youth Forum members join Elani music group in a dance during UNCTAD Conference at KICC on Thursday 21/07/16.PHOTO:BONIFACE OKENDO

NAIROBI: Africa is at crossroads. The continent can continue engaging with the developed, and the newly developed countries of South East Asia, as it has done for well over a century or it can engineer a paradigm shift.

Evidence on the ground suggests that the continent will continue hosting the world’s poorest people until it changes the way it does business within its borders and with the rest of the world. To their credit, African leaders understand the need for change and are openly calling on their development partners to embrace a new way of doing business.