Akingbolahan Adeniran is the former rule of law adviser to the Vice-President of Nigeria. In this interview he addresses issues of international criminal justice, and the challenges, both political and systemic, facing the investigation and prosecution of such crimes in the country. The former investigator at the International Criminal Court also discusses the importance of positive complementarity, how it can …
Lagos Television: http://www.lagostelevision.com From 28-30 June, Wayamo organised a capacity-building workshop for military investigators and prosecutors on ‘STRENGTHENING JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN NIGERIA’ at the Southern Sun Hotel Ikoyi in Lagos. The three-day workshop was organised by the Wayamo Foundation, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability and was opened by General Yusuf Shalangwa, …
6-8 August 2017 Interview with Justice Ibrahim H. Juma, Acting Chief Justice, Judiciary of Tanzania, on judicial independence in the fight against international and transnational crime
Elizabeth Ibanda Nahamya is a judge at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT). She discusses how IRMCT jurisprudence is also being used by domestic jurisdictions in Africa to prosecute and adjudicate international crimes. Judge Nahamya talks about the relationship between the IRMCT, domestic judiciaries, truth and reconciliation commissions, regional and international courts. Along with the challenges …
Susan Okalany is a judge at the International Crimes Division (ICD) of the High Court of Uganda. In this interview, she discusses the challenges judges face when adjudicating international crime cases at the ICD. She touches upon the relationship between international and transnational crimes and how linking these two crime sets together can help address violence and atrocity, and contemplates …
Fred Yiga, Assistant Inspector General of the Ugandan Police Force, and Director of Interpol (Uganda), addresses the challenge of effective collaboration across East African countries, stressing the importance of the harmonisation of prosecutions, laws, and punitive measures for transnational organised crimes. He spoke to the benefits that would accrue from effective prosecutions, including social, economic and political stability. He further …
Dorcas Oduor, Secretary and Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions and Head of Economic International and Emerging Crimes at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Kenya, speaks to Wayamo Foundation’s Judie Kaberia on: improving cooperation to ensure effective investigation and prosecution of complex crimes and intensify inter-agency collaboration to deal with international and transnational organised crimes, the different challenges …
Dire Tladi, Professor of Law at Pretoria University addresses one of the most pressing challenges facing international criminal justice: head of state immunity under international law. Tladi discusses the current state of affairs regarding head of state immunity, its importance to the future of the International Criminal Court, the possible request by the African Union, via the General Assembly, of …
Christine Alai, a Kenyan Lawyer and Head of Office, Physicians for Human Rights (Kenya) is responsible for the advancement of the Program on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones in Kenya, and coordinates and leads forensic trainings to influence collaboration among medical, legal, and law enforcement personnel with the goal of enhancing prosecutions and accountability for sexual violence in Kenya. She …
Charles Adeogun-Phillips, Litigation Practitioner and Former lead International Prosecutor, ICTR, talks about the complex challenges that African prosecutions face.
