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A warm welcome in deed to all my continental colleagues, friends and ardent supporters the world over to this unique and first Africa Prosecutors’ Association project developed and implemented as a communication mechanism and a means of sharing the Association’s tenets, principles and objectives; sharing expertise and African solutions, leveraging resources, functional systems, practical strategies and African best practices to combat and stamp-out crimes of whatever type and or complexity across our beloved continent. To these ends, our web-site is herby a means [and not an end in itself] to usher our best kept secret --- the Africa Prosecutors’’ Association, formed in 2003 to encourage unity and uniformity in Africa on matters relating to prosecutions, crime prevention, offender accountability as well as the inter and intra-country harmonization of legal frameworks and systems for ease of prosecutions within our individual member countries and across borders, as in deed, crime knows no boundaries. It will interest you to know that the APA’s humble beginnings and journey was started by a few forward-looking African Prosecutors during March 2003 in Durban, South Africa culminating in the 1st APA Conference and AGM, attended by 22 representatives from 6 member countries in Windhoek, Namibia during August of the same year. The APA’s 2nd Conference and AGM, attended by 35 representatives from 16 member countries were held during August 2004 in Maputo, Mozambique. This 2nd APA Conference and AGM culminated with 2 celebrated milestones, viz. the adoption of the APA’s Interim Constitution and the election of the APA’s EXCOM. |
