Mali Becomes First African Nation To Take War Crimes Prisoners -- CNN(CNN) -- Mali has agreed to take in prisoners convicted by the International Criminal Court, making it the first African country to enforce sentences handed down by the world war crimes tribunal.
The nation will work with the court to take in prisoners in Malian jails, the court said in a statement Friday. The court does not have prisons of its own.
The seven cases the court is investigating are all in Africa -- in Ivory Coast, Libya, Kenya, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Uganda.
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My Comment: Considering Africa's long legacy of war crimes and human rights abuses .... I suspect that this prison is going to be very busy for a very long time.
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