The anti-corruption campaign group, Transparency International, has urged governments in the West to help Africa recover part of the wealth lost through corruption and kept abroad. In the declaration presented in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, Transparency International said it estimated the amount of illegally impropriated money invested outside Africa at $140 billion. Genc Lamani reports.

Transparency International, or TI, which leads the campaign against corruption worldwide, says the phenomenon is seriously undermining Africa’s fragile democracies and hindering efforts to achieve sustainable development. Representatives of TI from seven African countries including Zambia, Zimbabwe and Uganda, said that if Africa was to reverse the trend, it was imperative that African governments demonstrated the political will to fight corruption in a meaningful way. But the organization says that without active cooperation from western governments, the process could take 100 years to complete.

国际反腐败组织透明国际督促西方国家政府，要求他们帮助非洲国家挽回由于腐败而流失到国外的部分财富。透明国际在肯尼亚首都内罗毕发表的宣言中说，大约有一千四百亿非法挪用的资金被投资在非洲以外的国家。Lamani报道。

透明国际是一个在全球发起反腐败运动的组织。该组织表示，腐败现象严重地危害了非洲国家脆弱的民主制度，阻碍了其为可持续发展而付出的努力。来自包括赞比亚、津巴布韦和乌干达等在内的非洲七个国家的透明国际的代表们表示，如果非洲想扭转腐败的趋势，那么非洲各国政府必采取切实可行的方法来展示他们反腐败的政治意愿。但是该组织说，如果非洲国家的反腐行动没有得到西方国家的积极配合，这个过程可能要花100年才能完成。