Report on the Exchange Programme between Young Lawyers from Central and East Africa and the Judiciary of Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, in Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo), Kigali (Rwanda) and Nairobi (Kenya) from 6 to 15 February 2016

Abstract

In February 2016 seven German judges and public prosecutors of the judiciary of Baden- Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz had the great opportunity of a ten-day-visit to either Rwanda or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a joint conference on “Require- ments for an Independent and Effective Judiciary” in Nairobi, Kenya. The whole visit was part of an exchange programme between young lawyers from Central and East Africa and the judiciary of Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz. From 5 to 18 October 2014 sev- en African lawyers (prosecutors, advocates and a judge) from Burundi, Rwanda and the DRC had already come to Stuttgart, Germany.1 The exchange programme was organized and coordinated by Professor Hartmut Hamann of the African Law Association and the Robert Bosch Foundation in cooperation with the competent Ministries of State and Justice of Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz.2 During the first part of the visit, four mem- bers of the German delegation went to Lubumbashi, DRC, while the other three members travelled to Kigali, Rwanda. The second part of the visit brought the German participants, their African exchange partners and other young lawyers from Central and East Africa to- gether in a conference in Nairobi, Kenya.