Hon Justice Charlyne M. Brumskine (Liberia) and Hon Justice Désire Henri Aihou (Bénin) have emerged as the brand new President and Vice-President of the Group Courtroom of Justice, ECOWAS, respectively.
The brand new management used to be elected on 13 October 2026 through the brand new school of judges.
Their emergence marks the start of a brand new management bankruptcy for the regional judicial establishment following the realization of the tenure of the outgoing school of judges.
The brand new management will steer the Courtroom’s judicial and institutional affairs for the following two years in their four-year, non-renewable mandate finishing in 2030.
The opposite 3 Participants of the Courtroom are Hon Justice Awa Bah (The Gambia), Hon Justice Henrietta Uzoamaka Didigu (Nigeria), and Hon Justice Yaouza Ouro-Sama (Togo).
Their emergence follows the swearing-in of those 5 newly appointed Judges of the Courtroom on 6 October 2026 in a rite presided over through the Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Executive and President of the Republic of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye.
The transition comes at a pivotal second for the ECOWAS Courtroom because it advances the implementation of its Strategic Plan 2026–2030, Justice 2030.
The plan supplies a framework for strengthening get admission to to justice, making improvements to judicial potency, improving institutional effectiveness, expanding the Courtroom’s visibility and consolidating public self assurance in regional justice.
As President, Justice Brumskine will supply general judicial management and constitute the Courtroom in its institutional and exterior engagements, whilst Justice Aihou, as Vice-President, will enhance the President within the discharge of the tasks of the place of job and carry out different purposes according to the Courtroom’s governing framework.
In her inaugural cope with, Hon. President Brumskine mentioned that her election used to be a chance to serve the Courtroom, the ECOWAS Group and in the end the folk of West Africa with dedication and a deep sense of accountability.
“I’m sincerely thankful to my esteemed colleagues for the arrogance they have got each and every reposed on me. I settle for this accountability, absolutely mindful of the duties it involves, and the expectancies that accompany main a regional judicial establishment, entrusted with decoding and making use of group regulation and protective human rights,” the President stated.
The outgoing President of the Courtroom, Hon Justice Ricardo Cláudio Monteiro Gonçalves, stated that the handover rite marked the realization of the tenure of the 5 outgoing judges and the transmission of tasks to the incoming Judges.
He described the rite as in particular vital because it expresses the basic idea of continuity of the establishment past the ones briefly referred to as to serve.
On behalf of the outgoing Judges of the Courtroom, he expressed heat needs for a a success tenure to the incoming Judges.
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