Mrs. Reine Alapini-Gansou from Continuo, Benin Republic and Former President of the East African Law Society, Justice Solomy Bossa of Uganda got elected with a total of eighty three (83) and eighty one (81) votes respectively. Mensa-Bonsu ended with a total of sixty votes which is not up to the number of votes required. Elected judge of the ICC, Hon. Commissioner Mrs. Reine ALAPINI GANSOU is a Lawyer to the Bar of Benin since 1986 and Law Teacher at University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) since 2000. As revealed in the African Charter on Human’s and People Right website, currently Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights since 2009, she is Member of the Commission since 2005 and she has formerly been the Special Rapporteur on Rights of Human Rights Defenders in Africa (2005-2009). She is also a member of the UN Permanent Court of Arbitration since 19th July 2011 and Laureate of the Prize of Human Rights for the Fiftieth year of African Countries independence in 2010. Recently, she has been Member of the United Nations’ International Commission of Inquiry on post-electoral violence in Cote d’Ivoire (May-June 2011); Agreed Arbitrator to the Beninese Chamber of trade and Industry (2005); Agreed Arbitrator to the Interprofessional Association of Cotton of Benin (2004) and President of the Technical Committee for elaboration of Statutes and Regulation of the Centre of Conciliation, Arbitration and mediation of the Beninese Chamber of the trade and Industry (2003). She holds two High Level University degrees, in Common Law at University of Lyon in 2007 (DU) and in Environmental Law and Politic at University of Lomé, Maastricht and Bhutan in 1999. She is author and Co author of Research papers in Human rights and in Law. Specialization: International Law and Human Rights, Commercial and Business law (Alternative Disputes Resolution Mechanisms), Labor law and Criminal Law. Justice Solomy Balungi Bossa on the other hand is a national of the Republic of Uganda who was elected Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in June 2014, for a term of six years. She has served as Judge with the High Court or Uganda for sixteen years (1997-2013). The East African Court of Justice for five years (2001-2006), United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) for nine and half years (2003-2013) and currently serves as Judge on the Court of Appeal/Constitutional Court for Uganda. She was once a Lecturer/Law Reporter at the Law Development Centre of Uganda for seventeen years (1981-1997). She is a member of the International Commission of Jurists, the international Association of Women Judges, the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights and the East African Judges and Magistrate’s Association, among others. At national level, she is a member of International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Uganda Chapter, the National Association of Women Judges, and the Uganda Association of Judges and Magistrates. She also participated through the aegis of the International Commission for Jurists, in the initial stages of drafting of the Additional Protocol on Women to the African Charter. She holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B) Honors from Makerere University. She is a candidate for a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M) from the University of London. She has received various national, regional and inter-national awards in recognition of her distinguished services as a legal practitioner, judge and human rights activist. TheNigerialawyer wishes to congratulate the two African legal icons on their appointment as members of the International bench.]]>
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