2024 marks ten years since the African Union (AU) states adopted the Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (Malabo Protocol), which would create a regional criminal court for Africa. The Protocol would add a criminal section alongside the general and human rights sections of the AU’s planned African Court of Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR), which would be established when the Sharm El Sheikh Protocol enters into force.
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A case of negative regional complementarity? Giving the African Court of Justice and Human Rights Jurisdiction over International Crimes
Max du Plessis, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. He is an Associate Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; Senior Research Associate, International Crime in Africa Programme, Institute for Security Studies; and a Barrister, South Africa. At their latest African Union (AU) Assembly meeting, held in July, African…