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Volume 2 (2017-2018) Volume Report Law Court African Report of judgments, orders and advisory opinions of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights African Court Law Report Volume 2 (2017-2018) Pretoria University Law Press PULP www.pulp.up.ac.za ISBN: 978-1-920538-94-1 PULP Editors Editors Convening Editor Ben Kioko Magnus Killander Vice-President of the Court and Chair of Professor, Centre for Human Rights, the Working Group on Publications Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria Rafaâ Ben Achour Assistant Editors Judge Sorie Bangura Angelo V. Matusse Master’s student, Centre for Human Judge Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria Marie-Thérèse Mukamulisa Judge Trésor Makunya Muhindo Doctoral student, Centre for Human Tujilane Chizumila Rights, Faculty of Law, Judge University of Pretoria Chafika Bensaoula Susan Mutambasere Judge Doctoral student, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Blaise Tchikaya University of Pretoria Judge Assistant Editors Dr. Robert Eno Registrar Dr. Sègnonna H. Adjolohoun Principal Legal Officer Dr. Mwiza Jo Nkhata Principal Legal Officer Report of judgments, orders and advisory opinions of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights African Court Law Report Volume 2 (2017-2018) 2019 Report of judgments, orders and advisory opinions of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights African Court Law Report Volume 2 (2017-2018) Published by: Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) is a publisher at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa. PULP endeavours to publish and make available innovative, high-quality scholarly texts on law in Africa. PULP also publishes a series of collections of legal documents related to public law in Africa, as well as text books from African countries other than South Africa. For more information on PULP, see www.pulp.up.ac.za To order, contact: PULP, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 0002 Tel: +27 12 420 4948, E-mail: [email protected] www.pulp.up.ac.za ISSN: 2663-3248 © 2019 The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights holds the copyright of this Law Report. The Centre for Human Rights manages its publication. Table of contents Editorial.......................................................................................v User Guide ................................................................................vi Acknowledgment ...................................................................... vii Table of Cases ........................................................................ viii Alphabetical Table of Cases......................................................xi Subject Index........................................................................... xiii Instruments Cited .................................................................. xxiii Cases Cited ................................................................................li Contentious Matters .................................................................. 1 Advisory Proceedings............................................................ 572 iii Editorial This is the second volume of the Report of judgments, orders and advisory opinions of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. This volume covers decisions from 2017 to 2018. The volume includes all the Judgments, including Separate and Dissenting Opinions, Advisory Opinions, Rulings, Decisions, Procedural Orders and Orders for Provisional Measures adopted by the Court during the period under review. Each case has a headnote setting out a brief summary of the case followed by keywords indicating the paragraphs of the case in which the Court discusses the issue. A subject index at the start of the reports indicates which cases discuss a particular issue. This index is divided into sections on general principles and procedure, and substantive issues. v User Guide This second volume of the African Court Law Report includes 37 decisions of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Decisions are sorted chronologically with decisions dealing with the same case (eg procedural decisions, orders for provisional measures, merits judgments and reparations judgments) sorted together. A table of cases setting out the sequence of the decisions in the Report is followed by an alphabetical table of cases. The Report also includes a subject index, divided into sections on procedure and substantive rights. This is followed by lists of instruments cited and cases cited. These lists show which of the decisions include reference in the main judgment to specific articles in international instruments and case law from international courts and quasi-judicial bodies. Each case includes a chapeau with a brief summary of the case together with keywords and paragraph numbers where the issue is discussed by the Court or in a separate opinion. The year before AfCLR in the case citation indicates the year of the decision, the number before AfCLR the volume number (2), while the number after AfCLR indicates the page number in this Report. vi Acknowledgment The support of the following persons in the process of publication of this Report is acknowledged with much appreciation: • Mr. Nouhou Madani Diallo, Deputy Registrar • Ms. Grace Wakio Kakai, Head of Legal Division • Dr. Serges Frédéric Mboumegne Dzesseu, Research Assistant to the President of the Court • Ms. Milka Mkemwa, Documentalist vii Table of Cases CONTENTIOUS MATTERS Nyamwasa and Others v Rwanda, Application 016/2015 Order (interim measures), 24 March 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 1 African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights v Kenya, Application 006/2012 Judgment (merits), 26 May 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 9 Onyachi and Njoka v Tanzania, Application 003/2015 Judgment (merits), 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 65 Jonas v Tanzania, Application 011/2015 Judgment (merits), 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 101 Diakité v Mali, Application 009/2016 Judgment (jurisdiction and admissibility), 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 118 Thomas v Tanzania, Application 001/2017 Judgment (interpretation), 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 126 Abubakari v Tanzania, Application 002/2017 Judgment (interpretation), 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 134 Actions pour la Protection des Droits de l’Homme (APDH) v Côte d’Ivoire, Application 003/2017 Judgment (interpretation), 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 141 Mulindahabi v Rwanda, Application 008/2017 Order (jurisdiction and admissibility), 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 145 Mugesera v Rwanda, Application 021/2017 Order (provisional measures), 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 149 Johnson v Ghana, Application 016/2017 Order (provisional measures), 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 155 Umuhoza v Rwanda, Application 003/2014 Judgment (merits), 24 November 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 165 Judgment (reparations), 7 December 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 202 Woyome v Ghana, Application 001/2017 Order (provisional measures), 24 November 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 213 viii Isiaga v Tanzania, Application 032/2015 Judgment (merits), 21 March 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 218 Kouma and Diabaté v Mali, Application 040/2016 Judgment (merits), 21 March 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 237 Anudo v Tanzania, Application 012/2015 Judgment (merits), 22 March 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 248 Gombert v Côte d’Ivoire, Application 038/2016 Judgment (jurisdiction and admissibility), 22 March 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 270 Nguza v Tanzania, Application 006/2015 Judgment (merits), 23 March 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 287 Mango v Tanzania, Application 005/2015 Judgment (merits), 11 May 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 314 Ramadhani v Tanzania, Application 010/2015 Judgment (merits), 11 May 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 344 Chrysanthe v Rwanda, Application 022/2015 Judgment (jurisdiction and admissibility), 11 May 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 361 Kemboge v Tanzania, Application 002/2016 Judgment (merits), 11 May 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 369 Association pour le Progrès et la Défense des Droits des Femmes Maliennes and the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa v Mali, Application 046/2016 Judgment (merits), 11 May 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 380 Evarist v Tanzania, Application 027/2015 Judgment (merits), 21 September 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 402 William v Tanzania, Application 016/2016 Judgment (merits), 21 September 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 426 Paulo v Tanzania, Application 020/2016 Judgment (merits), 21 September 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 446 Ajavon v Benin, Application 013/2017 Order (re-opening), 5 December 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 466 Order (provisional measures), 7 December 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 470 Guehi v Tanzania, Application 001/2016 Judgment (merits and reparations), 7 December 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 477 Werema v Tanzania, Application 024/2015 Judgment (merits), 7 December 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 520 ix Makungu v Tanzania, Application 006/2016 Judgment (merits), 7 December 2018 (2018) 2 AfCLR 550 ADVISORY PROCEEDINGS Request for Advisory Opinion by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, Application 001/2013 Advisory Opinion, 26 May 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 572 Request for Advisory Opinion by Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme, Application 002/2014 Advisory Opinion, 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 594 Request for Advisory Opinion by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and the Coalition of African Lesbians, Application 002/2015 Advisory Opinion, 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 606 Request for Advisory Opinion by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and Others, Application 001/2016 Advisory Opinion, 28 September 2017 (2017) 2 AfCLR 622 Request for