The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which fights against money laundering and terrorist financing, on Friday removed Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa from its "grey list" of countries under increased surveillance, it announced at the end of a plenary meeting in Paris.

Mexican FATF President Elisa de Anda Madrazo congratulated the four African countries during a press conference and announced that no other countries had been added to the gray list during the meeting.

"To support these improvements," the four countries will nevertheless continue to work in conjunction with their respective regional organizations such as the FATF.

The enhanced surveillance means that the country has committed to implementing an action plan to quickly address the identified shortcomings.

The FATF, however, did not modify its "black list," which includes North Korea, Iran and Myanmar, simply updating its assessment of Iran after recent discussions, while considering that the latter has persisted since 2016 in not resolving the problems raised by the FATF.

The Plenary Assembly also discussed and adopted the mutual evaluation reports of Belgium and Malaysia, which will be published in December.

Jamaica and Nigeria, meanwhile, participated in the meetings for the first time, joining Kenya in the invitation initiative "which aims to strengthen the global network" of the FATF.

Finally, the FATF "warns" about the use by criminals of generative AI, and in particular "deepfakes".