ALGIERS – Friday, 14 July 2023 (APS) – The official launch of the National Strategy for transparency, prevention and the fight against corruption (2023-2027) will be held on Saturday at a forum organized by the High Authority for Transparency Authority for Transparency, Prevention and the Fight against Corruption, under the high patronage of President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the Authority said on Thursday in a statement.

 

“The work of the forum, which will be held at the Abdelatif Rahal International Conference Centre (CIC), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Algeria, will be chaired by Prime Minister, Aïmene Benabderrahmane, in the presence of members of the government,” said the same source.

The holding of the forum coincides with Africa Anti-Corruption Day (11 July), celebrated this year under the theme “20 years since the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption: Achievements and Prospects,” and also coincides with the 1st anniversary of the creation of the High Authority for Transparency, Preventing and Combating Corruption.

The meeting will be attended by “some 350 representatives from public and private economic sectors, and civil society, as well as foreign delegations from friendly and fraternal countries, in addition to international and regional institutions,” according to the statement.