It theme is fighting the corruption hamstringing development, but as Jean-Jacques Cornish reports continental leaders have other difficult issues to confront.

AU Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat says at lest $50 billion of illicit money flows out of Africa every year.

That’s enough to lift countries out of poverty and change the lives of million of Africans.

Dealing with this is a priority of the gathering in Nouakchott this weekend.

But leaders also have to look at sustaining the peace signed between South Sudan’s government and the rebels who’s five-year war as killed a hundred thousand and displaced millions.

They also have to press new member Morocco to end its illegal occupation of the Western Sahara which is Africa’s last colonial vestige.

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In the seventh round of voting at the AU summit yesterday Mahamat beat Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed whose government accuses the court of being a racist puppet of imperialist powers.

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As a key leader in creating the International Criminal Court in the ‘90s Canada despatched its former foreign minister Stéphane Dion last year to three African countries moving to quit the ICC.

Since these, Gambia has since had a change of government and reiterated its support for the tribunal.

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faced murder charges at the international court, has alleged that the court is a toy of declining imperial powers that obeys the cues of European and American governments.

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