On January 30–31, 2015, the African Union adopted, among other documents, a Special Declaration on Illicit Financial Flows, which seeks to address “the increasing scale and extent of Illicit Financial flows from Africa.” The declaration resolved “to ensure that all the financial resources lost through illicit capital flight and illicit financial flows are identified and returned to Africa to finance the continent’s development Agenda.” Estimating that the continent loses US$150 billion annually through such flows, the declaration acknowledged the role played by corruption and poor governance in exacerbating the problem and urged the “[i]nternational community to adopt and implement the findings and recommendations of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa.” The U.N. Convention Against Corruption similarly addresses the problem of illicit financial flows and notes the need to “strengthen international cooperation in asset recovery.”