{"id":32199,"date":"2017-02-20T09:40:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T08:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/32199-week-in-review-car-and-gambia-take-positive-steps-on-justice.html"},"modified":"2017-02-20T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T08:40:39","slug":"week-in-review-car-and-gambia-take-positive-steps-on-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/32199-week-in-review-car-and-gambia-take-positive-steps-on-justice.html","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: CAR and Gambia take positive steps on justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>This week Africa and Africans showed that transitional justice, so often criticized on that continent, can complement national justice.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Central African Republic (CAR) finally appointed a Prosecutor for its future Special Criminal Court, a mixed tribunal to be composed of national and international judges. This is the first step in a long transitional justice process, in a country divided and ravaged by conflict. CAR\u2019s President Touad\u00e9ra has appointed a Congolese jurist and military man, Toussaint Muntazini Mukimapa (also author of an <a href=\"en\/component\/k2\/28669-the-congolese-experience-with-the-complementary-role-of-the-icc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article <\/a>by JusticeInfo.net on complementarity between the International Criminal Court and the justice system in his country). The new court has a mandate to conduct investigations and trials on grave violations of human rights perpetrated in the CAR since 2003. It is expected to become operational within a year, in a context which is particularly violent. \u201cThe task entrusted to the Congolese magistrate is not only immense but difficult,\u201d <a href=\"en\/component\/k2\/32175-central-african-special-court-gets-congolese-prosecutor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes<\/a> JusticeInfo\u2019s Ephrem Rugiririza, \u201cnotably because some of the people accused by international human rights organizations like exiled former presidents Michel Djotodia and Fran\u00e7ois Boziz\u00e9 still have links to the highest echelons of power in the CAR.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In another positive development on the African continent, new Gambian president Adama Barrow has not only chosen former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow to head the Supreme Court, previously subjugated to ex-president Yayah Jammeh, but has also reversed Jammeh\u2019s decision to pull out of the International Criminal Court. \u201cTwenty-two years of injustices and abuse of power require knowledge to ensure that justice is seen to be done as well as reconciliation to give peace a chance,\u201d declared President Barrow at Jallow\u2019s swearing-in ceremony on February 15. And the new Chief Justice promised that: \u201cAt the judiciary, we shall do our utmost to ensure that the justice system meets the expectations of the community and of the required international standards.\u201d As <a href=\"fr\/component\/k2\/32172-gambie-jallow-promet-%C3%A0-son-pays-une-justice-conforme-aux-normes-internationales.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JusticeInfo writes<\/a>, \u201cJallow is one of the people who has participated at a very high level in the building of international criminal justice. After a long international career, he has now chosen to put his experience at the service of his country.\u201dThese signs of spring do not necessarily make a summer, but they nevertheless show that justice can have a future in Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A stronger role for Africa is also advocated in conflict-ridden, recently independent South Sudan by Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia University and director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Kampala, Uganda. In an <a href=\"en\/component\/k2\/can-the-african-union-save-south-sudan.html?Itemid=102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with JusticeInfo and an Op Ed for the New York Times, he suggests that the African Union should lead a \u201csecond transition\u201d in South Sudan after the clear failure of efforts by the international community, notably the UN, Norway, the UK and the US. \u201cThe African Union is divided but it has great stakes in making this work,\u201d says Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Africa and Africans showed that transitional justice, so often criticized on that continent, can complement national justice.\u00a0 The Central African Republic (CAR) finally appointed a Prosecutor for its future Special Criminal Court, a mixed tribunal to be composed of national and international judges. 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