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Hibapress
The Ministers of Justice of the Alliance of the States of the Sahel (AES), bringing together Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, have approved the creation of a high security prison linked to the future Sahelian criminal court and human rights, in order to fight terrorism and serious crimes on the scale of the Sahelian space.
A final press release, sanctioning the work of the meeting of the ministers responsible for justice of the AES, held on May 29 and 30 in Bamako, specifies that the future criminal court aims to judge the most serious crimes at the level of the Confederation, in an additional or subsidiary logic to the national jurisdictions, whose acts of terrorism, the organized transnational crimes.
The document, relayed by local media, also underlines that the ministers approved the principle of an accelerated harmonization of criminal legislation within the AES space, particularly in the fields of terrorism, cybercrime, money laundering, the trafficking in human beings and damage to the sovereignty of the States, adding that a regional file of people sought or condemned for serious crimes will be put in place and Accessible to the judicial and security authorities of the three countries.
The objective is to better coordinate surveys, to avoid the areas of judicial laws and to strengthen the traceability of dangerous individuals on a cross-border scale.
The AES ministers also decided to organize joint training sessions for the benefit of judicial actors and to pool technical resources to strengthen the efficiency of legal and judicial systems while emphasizing the imperative need to strengthen the initial and continuous training of judicial and penitentiary actors.
They also expressed their common desire to create a regional center for judicial and penitentiary training, intended to perfect the training of actors in the sector through joint modules, adapted to specific security realities of the Sahel.
For the Malian Prime Minister, the General of Division Abdoulaye Maïga, who presided over the opening of the work of this meeting, “the transnational character of the terrorism scourge, the support which the terrorist and criminal organizations benefit, the complexity of the surveys only leave the choice to initiate reflection around the solutions on the level of the Confederation”, noting that the criminal judicial response in a harmonized framework or will help strengthen the visibility of efforts by states in the promotion and protection of human rights.
