African Court needs expanded legal mandate to handle corruption cases

Arusha. The African Court on Human and People's Rights (AfCHPR) will take on cases against corruption only if its jurisdiction is extended to include anti-graft fight.
"Our mandate so far is confined to cases with bearing on human rights violations," affirmed Justice Sylvain Ore, the President of the judicial organ of the African Union based here.
He said although grand corruption can lead to human rights violations through denial of segregated people of their resources, time has not come for the Court to handle such cases.
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