Pope Benedict XVI has made an emphatic appeal to Africans to rid the continent of corruption once and for all.
The 81-year-old was speaking during a televised address in Angola during a week-long tour of African countries.
The Pope said that with integrity, magnanimity and compassion Africans could transform their continent.
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has launched a similar attack, accusing many African presidents of running anti-democratic regimes.
The Pope arrived in the Angola capital Luanda on Friday from Cameroon, on the second leg of his African tour.
He said that people in Angola knew "the time of hope has arrived" for Africa and that every "decent, hopeful human behaviour" would make a difference to God and in history.
"My beloved friends, with an upright, magnanimous heart that is also compassionate, you can transform this continent, freeing the people from the whip of greed, violence, disorder and guiding it through the path of those principles that are indispensible to any modern democracy," he said.
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