{"id":2909,"date":"2024-11-26T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T13:09:43","slug":"pida-week-2024-africas-scourge-of-illicit-financial-flows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/pida-week-2024-africas-scourge-of-illicit-financial-flows\/","title":{"rendered":"PIDA Week 2024: Africa\u2019s scourge of illicit financial flows and infrastructure gaps."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-14.54.42-1024x729.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-14.54.42-1024x729.png 1024w, https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-14.54.42-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-14.54.42-768x546.png 768w, https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-14.54.42-420x300.png 420w, https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-14.54.42-600x427.png 600w, https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-14.54.42-150x107.png 150w, https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-14.54.42.png 1168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ghana Business News<\/strong> published a report on <strong>PIDA Week 2024<\/strong>, titled <em>Africa\u2019s Scourge of Illicit Financial Flows and Infrastructure<\/em>. The report highlights the <strong>Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA)<\/strong>, a strategic initiative aimed at addressing critical infrastructure challenges across key sectors such as <strong>energy, water, transport, and ICT<\/strong>, to promote regional integration and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Since its inception in 1991, PIDA has facilitated <strong>433 projects<\/strong>, achieving notable success in the ICT sector, where <strong>75% of initiated projects have been completed<\/strong>. The report also identifies key challenges that continue to hinder Africa&#8217;s infrastructure development, including insufficient access to clean water, energy deficits, and inadequate transport networks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">Link : <a style=\"color: #0563c1;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2024\/11\/25\/pida-week-2024-africas-scourge-of-illicit-financial-flows-and-infrastructure-gaps\/\">https:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2024\/11\/25\/pida-week-2024-africas-scourge-of-illicit-financial-flows-and-infrastructure-gaps\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana Business News published a report on PIDA Week 2024, titled Africa\u2019s Scourge of Illicit Financial Flows and Infrastructure. The report highlights the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), a strategic initiative aimed at addressing critical infrastructure challenges across key sectors such as energy, water, transport, and ICT, to promote regional integration and economic growth. Since its inception in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/au-pida.org\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}