Transparency International is using the forthcoming AU meeting in Addis Ababa as an opportunity to call upon the African Leaders to sign, ratify and begin putting in place structures which would allow for the implementation of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption and the United Nations Convention against Corruption. To date 30 countries have signed but only 3 (Comoros, Libya and Rwanda) have ratified it. The convention requires 15 ratifications to enter into force.