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| Next ICC Prosecutor, Bensouda |
Gambian-born
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bom Bensouda
has been named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time
Magazine of the United States.
The
appointment of Mrs Bensouda, who has been Mr Moreno-Ocampo’s deputy throughout
his tenure, was unanimously approved at a meeting of the legislative body of
the ICC, the Assembly of States Parties (ASP), in New York in December last
year.
Mrs
Bensouda, a former senior legal adviser at the International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda, which is trying key figures responsible for the 1994 genocide in
the Central African state, got the job ahead of three other short-listed
candidates.
Expected
to take office as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on
June 16, Fatou who will be serving as the court’s second prosecutor and the
first African woman to assume the top job at an international tribunal, faces
daunting challenges in advancing the court’s significant, but still fragile,
progress.
