Senegalese magistrate could become deputy prosecutor at the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands, September 27, 2018. REUTERS / Eva Plevier / File Photo
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Mandiaye Niang is running for the post of Deputy Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
As part of the renewal of the team of prosecutor Karim Khan, who succeeded Gambian Fatou Bensouda in June 2021, the Senegalese judge was selected from some 200 candidates from around the world.
The current Attorney General at the Saint-Louis Court of Appeal is the only African in the list of six nominees.
Two will be elected deputy prosecutors in a vote scheduled for December.
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With our correspondent in Dakar,
Charlotte Idrac
He claims to be a "
pure product of the Senegalese university and judicial system
", with long international experience.
Holder of a master's degree in private law and a diploma from the National School of Administration and Magistracy in Dakar, Mandiaye Niang, 61, has held various positions at the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
and the
International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia
.
He was also representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for Southern Africa.
"
I think I have the path I am looking for, with a little over 30 years of career which is a combination of national experience and international experience
", he confides.
While the ICC has been accused of dealing
only with African cases
, Mandiaye Niang is therefore the only one appointed from the continent: “
It will be a question of fighting so that Africa has its representative.
Africa is the ICC's biggest "client", if I can call it that, in business terms.
(...) I think I would be a good representative
.
"
The two ICC deputy prosecutors will be elected for a nine-year term by the Assembly of States Parties.
It is scheduled from December 6 to 11.
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