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 Posted - 29 Feb 2008 : 19:33:49
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African Court Rules Incomplete
As Extra-ordinary Session Closes
By Bubacarr K. Sowe
The extra-ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Saturday ended in Banjul without concluding on all the items on their agenda. The commission was expected to finalize and consider the rules of procedure of the African Human Rights Court in this fourth extra-ordinary session, but the commission in a Communiqué’ said that it had postponed some of the unfinished work to a future date.
“The African Commission would also like to place on record that due to the intensity of the work involved in the consideration of the rules of procedure, it was able to consider only three of the items originally slated for this extra-ordinary session namely, the draft rules of procedure and the human rights situations in Kenya and Somalia,” the communiqué noted.
The Commission’s Chairperson, Justice Sanji Monageng, told Foroyaa that the remaining issues will be tackled at the May ordinary session in Swaziland. Asked if the Commission would not be over overloaded again, thus hindering the time table in Swaziland, Justice Monageng said she cannot answer that, but they would try to prioritise and do as much as they can.
The Commission has adopted two resolutions and it will send a fact-finding mission to Kenya and Somalia in due course to investigate allegations of human rights violation in the two neighbouring states, according to reports.
Marie Saine-Firdaus Secretary of State for Justice and Attorney General for The Gambia, said she hopes that the rules of procedure for the African Court would serve the interest of all the people on the continent.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No 24/2008, 27 - 28 February 2008
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