Panama Papers

===Africa===
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Former South African president [[Thabo Mbeki]], head of the [[African Union]]'s panel on illicit financial flows, on April 9 called the leak "most welcome" and called on African nations to investigate the citizens of their nations who appear in the papers. His panel's 2015 report<ref name=uneca>{{cite web |url = http://www.uneca.org/sites/default/files/PublicationFiles/iff_main_report_26feb_en.pdf |title = Illicit Financial Flows: Report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa: Commissioned by the AU/ECA Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development |access-date = April 27, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160922204148/http://www.uneca.org/sites/default/files/PublicationFiles/iff_main_report_26feb_en.pdf |archive-date = September 22, 2016 |url-status = live }}</ref> found that Africa loses $50 billion a year due to tax evasion and other illicit practices and its 50-year losses top a trillion dollars. Furthermore, he said, the [[Seychelles]], an African nation, is the fourth most mentioned tax haven in the documents.<ref name=NWau>{{cite news |title = PANAMA PAPERS: AFRICAN UNION CALLS FOR INVESTIGATIONS |author=Conor Gaffey |date=April 11, 2016 |access-date=April 27, 2016 |work=Newsweek |url = http://www.newsweek.com/panama-papers-african-union-calls-investigations-446221 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160423045728/http://www.newsweek.com/panama-papers-african-union-calls-investigations-446221 |archive-date=April 23, 2016 }}</ref>

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