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Issue 00407 |
Feb 1 - 24, 2006 |
issn 0856 - 9135 |
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| Arusha now to host African Union Courts By Arusha Times Reporter The Tanzanian National Assembly which currently seats in the Dodoma municipality, has just ratified the protocol on the establishment of an African Union (AU) courts here in Arusha, at the same premises where the United Nations' International Tribunal for Rwanda (UN-ICTR), is currently being hosted. The parliament, assented in the course of last week, the AU court protocol which was previously formulated and signed in the Mozambique capital of Maputo over two and a half years ago, in July 2003. The Tanzanian lawmakers also adjured the protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights The court, to be known as the African Court of Justice, will be housed in the existing Arusha International Conference Center (AICC) complex, the three winged building which also houses the UN-ICTR as well as the East African Community (EAC) headquarters. The AICC is also the country's biggest conference building and meeting place. This development comes at the time when the UN-ICTR is in the process of completing its mandate here in Arusha. The tribunal which started to handle cases relating to the Rwanda genocide of 1994 was established here in 1995. Last year, the government of United States of America, proposed that a similar Tribunal to try cases for the Sudanese war atrocities in Darfur should also be established here but the US lost after various UN members states favored the International Tribunal at the Hague.
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