Monday, 16 March 2015

African court embarks on Kiswahili promoting programme

The African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) has embarked on a programme geared to produce multilingual promotional materials for the court proceedings so that it can be clearly understood by ordinary people.
 
Despite the fact that Swahili is among the African Union’s official languages, it can be given due consideration in the new court programme.
Other AU official languages include English, French, Portuguese and Arabic.
 
President of the court, Justice Augustino Ramadhani said this here when addressing the 1st Colloquium of the Coalition for an effective African Court and Human Peoples’ Rights, themed: “Building the Court we want: Reflecting on Perspective of the Proposed African Court with Criminal jurisdiction”. Read more
 

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