{"id":39434,"date":"2026-07-13T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39434"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:21:37","slug":"africa-marks-anti-corruption-day","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/africa-marks-anti-corruption-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa marks Anti-Corruption Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">African Anti-Corruption Day was commemorated over the weekend, marking the adoption of the African Union (AU) Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Since its establishment, the day has served as a platform for reflection, advocacy, and renewed action against corruption across the continent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This year&#8217;s theme, &#8220;Scaling Up the Promotion of Integrity and Anti-Corruption Actions Across Africa,&#8221; underscores the need to strengthen transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">AU Commission Chairperson, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, says the fight against corruption is fundamental to advancing Africa&#8217;s development, peace, security, and social justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22843,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-39434","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39435,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39434\/revisions\/39435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}