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African Commission criticised for failing to institute African Court

The leading international NGO working to secure rights for ethnic, religious minorities, Minority Rights Group International, published a new report (and the Press Release) on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ rights which has yet to hear a case ten years after the African Unity’s summit signed the Protocol in Burkina Faso founding it and ordering for its institution. Since the signing of the Protocol in the establishment of an African Court there has been some but very little progress on the whole. Although judges and a location have been chosen, and rules of procedure developed, the institution to…