The 2025 edition of the Basel AML Index published on December 8, 2025 by the Basel Institute on Governance (Switzerland), mentions the three African countries most vulnerable to money laundering and crime financials.

Basel AML Index evaluates 177 countries and territories on a scale of 0 to 10. It awards the DRC the third place World Cup with a score of 7.63, followed by Chad (4th in the world) and Guinea Equatorial (5th). ^{According to the 2025 edition of the Basel AML Index, Gabon ranks 8th.} Place, the Central African Republic (9th), Guinea-Bissau (10th), the Republic of Congo (11th), Djibouti (13th), Niger (14th), and Algeria (15th), which closes the top 10 African.

Out of the 48 African countries covered by The index, 25 remain classified as “high risk” (score greater than 6.08), 20 at “medium risk” and only three (Botswana (4.12 points), Seychelles and Mauritius) in the “low risk” category.

Despite an average regional score still high (6.14 points), sub-Saharan Africa shows signs of improvement notable in 2025 thanks to the removal of six countries from the “gray list” from the FATF.

Note that 70% of the countries in the region improved their score. On a global scale, the index awards the first place (8.18 points) with Burma ahead of Haiti. Seven of the ten countries with the most advances at the global level are also located in sub-Saharan Africa (Liberia, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria, Nigeria, Mali, Tanzania and Ivory Coast). Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire have even moved from the “risk” category. high” to “medium risk.”

The Basel AML Index is based on 17 indicators grouped into five areas: quality of the regulatory framework anti-money laundering (50% weighting), corruption risks (17.5%), financial transparency (17.5%), public transparency and accountability (5) %), legal and political risks (10%) according to FATF data, from 107%; font-family: "Bookman Old Style”, serif">Transparency International and of the Bank global .

The ten least African countries vulnerable are, in order: Botswana, Seychelles, Seychelles, Mauritius, Tunisia, Namibia, Morocco, Ghana, Ghana, Egypt, Egypt, Zambia and Senegal.