THE FOURTH high-level meeting of African heads of constitutional and supreme courts as well as constitutional councils was held in Cairo earlier this week. Around 100 African judges representing 35 African countries attended the meeting. The Egyptian side was represented by Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli, Minister of Justice Omar Marwan, Minister of State for Military Production Mohamed Said Al-Assar, and head of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court Sayed Marei, as well as heads and members of various judicial bodies.
The Cairo judicial meeting aimed at encouraging cooperation among African countries in their quest for justice. Participants discussed various means of strengthening judicial cooperation among African countries in order to realise justice, truth and the rule of law sought by the continent’s nations.
The meeting was an initiative taken by the court to reunite the higher judicial bodies that control the constitutionality of laws through dialogue on common legal and constitutional issues, Marei said.
African judicial representatives came to Egypt to discuss mechanisms concerning constitutional interpretation, means of protecting African rights, and how to jointly face common challenges, including terrorism, from a constitutional perspective, Madbouli said, according to a statement from the presidency.
*A version of this article appears in print in the 27 February, 2020 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly
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