The dependence of African economies on natural resources extraction makes African countries particularly vulnerable to IFFs.  By undermining domestic resource mobilization, illicit outflows create dependence on outside resources thereby undermining national sovereignty and creating vulnerability to unfair conditionalities tied to development assistance, foreign loans, and aid Illicit outflows from the continent have been at as much as $1.4 trillion for 3 decades. Corporate commercial activity particularly stands out as the biggest culprit – accounting for as much as 65% of all illicit outflows.  Illicit financial flows are a mere symptom of a much bigger structural problem of unjust economic and power relations between Africa and the developed world that has historically impoverished Africa and enriched the West. This is how our campaign has evolved from targeting IFFs to addressing the broader bottlenecks around development financing for Africa.