Transparency in African Union

This is good initiative, but transparency wasn't African Union's priority in the times of Mbeki and Obasanjo, when they was trying to stop numerous civil and international wars. And this was only five years ago.

First comprehensive and effective transparency law was probably Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative[1]
passed in 2007. It was mildly successful only because Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, anti-corruption agency, investigated 30 Nigerian governors, ministers, members of parliament including speaker and finally arested police chief. Still investigating corruption in some African countries isn't safe thing to do.



You can find guidelines for better resource deals in the places like Publish What You Pay[2]
or Natural Resource Charter[3]
. There are many NGOs working better governance, notably Open Society[4]
and Mo Ibrahim[5]
and African Union should be good forum to share natural resource policies, but currently poor countries's leaders want to listen to Norway more than to each other and Bono explaining advance of royalty model over profit tax model during management of large scale bauxite exploration should be averted at all costs.