Last Monday, a senior government official announced that Botswana is creating a center to combat illicit financial flows at the University of Botswana.

Le centre de lutte contre les flux financiers illicites aidera le Botswana to comply with international standards to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing (AML/CFT/PF). According to Peggy Serame, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, the center would provide the required training to all stakeholders and contribute to capacity building for the next mutual evaluation scheduled for January 2027, which is a peer review used to assess the level of compliance of countries with the anti-money laundering standard by the Financial Action Task Force (GAFI ) , a intergovernmental organization responsible for developing standards to prevent and combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism