Yayah Jammeh Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/yayah-jammeh/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Yayah Jammeh Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/yayah-jammeh/ 32 32 Ex ICC prosecutor says African leaders are trying to cover up war crimes https://jjcornish.com/2016/10/ex-icc-prosecutor-says-african-leaders-trying-cover-war-crimes/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/10/ex-icc-prosecutor-says-african-leaders-trying-cover-war-crimes/ International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has not commented on her native Gambia joining Burundi and South Africa in quitting the international tribunal. However, her predecessor Luis Moreno Ocampo is  adamant African leaders are covering up war crimes. Fatou Bensouda is a former justice minister in the Gambia. Since becoming prosecutor of the International Criminal […]

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International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has not commented on her native Gambia joining Burundi and South Africa in quitting the international tribunal.

However, her predecessor Luis Moreno Ocampo is  adamant African leaders are covering up war crimes.

Fatou Bensouda is a former justice minister in the Gambia.

Since becoming prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, she has been at pains to deny that the 14-year-old body is singling out African human rights violators for attention.

However, Gambia’s President Yayah Jammeh insists this exactly what has happened.

His Information Minister Sheriff Bojang asks why former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was not indicted over the Iraq war.

Gambia has been trying to get the European Union prosecuted for the deaths of Africans trying to reach its shores

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