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Eswatini strengthens cooperation against financial crime

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Eswatini is taking part in the Africa financial intelligence summit in Kampala to strengthen cooperation against money laundering and illicit financial flows. The meeting brings together policymakers, regulators and law enforcement agencies from 9 to 13 November, according to the Times of Eswatini.

Eswatini is taking part in the AFIS 2026 Africa Financial Intelligence Summit, held from 9 to 13 November at the Speke Resort Convention Centre in Munyonyo, Kampala, to strengthen cooperation against money laundering and illicit financial flows. The country is represented notably by Babhekile Matsebula, director general of the Eswatini Financial Intelligence Centre.

Participants are examining ways to strengthen financial intelligence systems, coordination between institutions and new threats facing national and regional financial systems. The Eswatini delegation also includes Nompumelelo Msibi, director of Financial Policy and Reforms, Lomvula Hlophe, assistant director of Public Prosecutions, and Wilson Dube, a representative of the Royal Eswatini Police Service.

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