ACA: Sisi launches 2nd phase of anti-graft strategy

CAIRO - 10 December 2018: President Abdel Fatah al Sisi has launched the second phase of the national strategy for fighting corruption 2019-2022 at Africa 2018 forum in Sharm El Sheikh.

The Egyptian Administrative Control Authority (ACA), the country's anti-corruption body, said in a statement Monday that the second strategy complements the first one which was launched by the president in 2014.

The launch coincided with the International anti-corruption day on December 9.

The strategy's goals focus on developing anti-graft bodies and activating mechanisms of transparency and integrity at government offices along with modernizing judicial procedures to accelerate verdicts' issuance and increasing public awareness about the need to combat corruption.