A bit more: "Corruption is a direct impediment to Africa's development. Corruption hurts the many and benefits the few," South Africa's Public Service Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi told delegates at the corruption conference.

"It takes away resources from priority areas such as health, social development and education. It also hampers the continent's efforts to instill sound political, socio-economic and corporate governance."

A similar acknowledgement of the dangers of corruption can even be heard from Sudan, which ranks fifth from bottom of the Transparency International list, ahead of only Haiti, Burma, Iraq and Guinea."

as long as the human greed is there, corruption won't know boundaries...