In the News: "The Ivory Coast vs CADHP affair"

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By: Norbert Navarro

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After "  the Soro case  ", sentenced to twenty years in prison, here is "  the Ivory Coast case versus the African Court on Human and Peoples  ' Rights ". Being reminded that this Pan-African court had ordered the power of Abidjan to stay the arrest warrant issued by the Ivorian justice against the ex-president of the National Assembly Guillaume Soro, the government of Abidjan decided to withdraw the Coast d'Ivoire of the protocol of this African court for the defense of human rights.

The Ivory Coast "  stands up  " against the African Court, launches the independent daily L'Inter .

The daily newspaper Générations Nouvelles, close to Guillaume Soro, affirms that, despite this withdrawal, the decision of the African Court is "  maintained  " and the procedure will go "  to the end  ".

L'Éléphant Déchaîné describes the Ivorian government as a "  joy kill  " because it "took  out the heavy weapon  " by taking a "  barrier measure  " against the African Court.

As for the newspaper Le Nouveau Réveil , he found the formula. For this daily close to the PDCI, the party of ex-president Henri Konan Bédié, Côte d'Ivoire has "  made a big leap back  "!

Disapproval also in neighboring Burkina Faso. "  Be careful not to kill the institution,  " warns the Ugandan newspaper Le Pays . Because despite its "  inadequacies  ", the African Court of Human Rights "  remains and remains the ideal remedy where the weak can be heard and obtain compensation for the damage suffered, in an Africa where, generally, the national courts are under orders  ", Underlines this Burkinabe daily. This is why a "  possible disappearance  " of the African Court would sound like a "  guarantee of impunity for all these African dictators and other predators of human rights  ", warns Le Pays.

Ivorian opposition mobilizes

The Ivorian opposition immediately reacted. It's a chorus that sites Abidjan.net , Africa 7 , The Infodrome or Afrik Evening and Koaci.com have posted the "  Document Collaboration Framework  " signed yesterday by the PDCI and the FPI Laurent Gbagbo view of "  building together a " new Ivory Coast " with " the return of President Laurent Gnagbo, Minister Charles Blé Goudé, (of) Mayor Noel Akossi Bendjo (and of) all the exiles "".

Blé Goudé wants to go back

In The Hague, lawyers for Charles Blé-Goudé oppose those for Laurent Gbagbo and the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court regarding the postponement of the May 11 hearing at the ICC. According to Jeune Afrique , the defense of the former Ivorian Minister of Youth Charles Blé Goudé is "  upwind against Fatou Bensouda and Emmanuel Altit  ", the lawyer of the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo. The pan-African weekly even reports that Maître Knoops, Charles Blé Goudé's main lawyer, "is  not fooling against his colleague Emmanuel Altit  ".

Reason for this disagreement? While the rest of the appeal trial of Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé was to take place from May 11 to 13 before the ICC, this hearing "  should in principle be postponed sine die", states Jeune Afrique, being reminded that at large Traits, due to coronavirus, the ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had requested the postponement of the said hearing and that Maître Altit had accepted this postponement.

Maître Knoops and his colleague Maître Simplice Séri Zokou are considering asking the ICC for a new hearing to be held "as  soon as possible  ", adds Jeune Afrique . The newspaper also claims that Charles Blé Goudé told one of his advisers that he wants to "  finish the procedure to" go home  "in Côte d'Ivoire, despite his sentence to twenty years in prison pronounced by the justice of his country, on the eve of his total acquittal "by the International Criminal Court.

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