There were high hopes when 30 countries launched the Court back in 1998.
Six years later, the court began its work and its judgments are binding on member states. But today, the court is no longer a priority for many African governments, or even the“Individuals and NGOs are currently the only ones bringing cases to the African humans rights court,” former deputy chairman of the ACHPR, Fatsah Ouguergouz, told DW.
On April 28, a court in Ivory Coast imposed a 20-year prison sentence on Guillaume Soro for corruption. The ACHPR had ordered the suspension of the arrest warrant against Soro. In both cases, the government complained of gross interference by the court that threatened the “well-being of the nation.” “The alternative is to tell people to turn to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to appeal to the court indirectly,” Fidele Kikan, Amnesty International’s Country Director in Benin, told DW.
“It is quite astonishing that heads of state who portray themselves as more or less as populist pan-Africanists are simultaneously working to weaken regional institutions.”According to Zimbabwean lawyer Sternford Moyo, the problem does not lie with the ACHPR itself.
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