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Focus on Africa

Nigeria: Chibok girl rescued; South Africa: Prosecutor to appeal court order to reinstate corruption charges against Jacob Zuma; DRC: Political crisis deepens; Burundi: Peace talks held in Tanzania

Focus on Africa

Ban on live media coverage of opposition protests in Uganda; Kenya to close all refugee camps and South African President in trouble of corruption

THE LAW AND THE POACHING MENACE IN AFRICA

It is apparent that states should strengthen their criminal justice systems to combat this phenomenon. It should be a major objective to increase law enforcement responses to wildlife crimes. Additionally, policies should be put in place to ensure that wildlife is protected through recruiting, training and equipping rangers to perform their duties adequately...Nonetheless, good laws alone without enforcement will not help us fight this menace…over to you all enforcers; play your part and only then shall the rule of law be respected and strengthened.

Ruling of the African Court against Tanzania

Here is the full ruling.

Joint Civil Society Statement on Rwanda’s Withdrawal of its Article 34(6)Declaration from the Protocol on the AfCHPR

Leading African and international human rights organizations have in a joint statement criticized the government of Rwanda for withdrawing individual access to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights terming it as '...a significant setback for human rights protection in the country and across Africa.'

International Criminal Justice in Africa: Issues, Challenges and Prospects

This is the 3rd edition that is written by Africans for a global readership with the aim of providing contemporaneous, diverse and critical perspectives from within Africa regarding important developments and issues relating to the prosecution of international and transnational crimes on the continent. The publication aims to reflect the character of the modern, complementarity-centred international criminal justice system by not only focusing on supranational (continental and regional) developments, but also on developments at state level within Sub-Saharan Africa.

SUPPORTING THE RULE OF LAW WORLDWIDE

This brochure seeks to present the global activities on the rule of law that are undertaken and supported by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung worldwide.

Media Freedom in Africa – Landmark ruling by the African Court!

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights delivered a historic ruling on 5th June 2015 in the case of Norbert Zongo, a Burkina Faso newspaper editor who was murdered together with 3 other people in 1998.

Terroranschlag in Kenia

Der Direktor des Rechtsstaatsprogramms, Dr. Arne Wulff, zu dem jüngsten Terroranschlag in Kenia:„Noch vergangenen Mittwoch kritisierte der kenianische Präsident Uhuru Kenyatta Großbritannien für eine erneute Reisewarnung. Man rate, so die ehemalige Kolonialmacht, seine Bürger von einem Besuch der kenianischen Nordostküste ab.

JUDICIARY WATCH REPORT: THE LEGAL PROFESSION AND THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER IN KENYA

This book is part of KAS-ICJ Kenya annual series on Judiciary Watch Report that is devoted to the study of Kenya’s legal profession. It is among the very few studies on this important subject and the first publication that addresses the place and role of the legal profession as a whole under the new constitutional order in Kenya. Contributors to this study includes the Hon. Chief Justice Dr. Willy Mutunga, Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee, eminent legal scholars Prof. PLO Lumumba and Prof. Patricia Kameri-Mbote to mention but a few. It was edited by Prof. Yash Pal Ghai and Jill Ghai