Gambia: African Elected As New Chief Prosecutor of ICC

International Criminal Court member states on Monday unanimously elected Fatou Bensouda of Gambia as the new chief prosecutor of the main global genocide and war crimes tribunal.

Bensouda will take over next June from Luis Moreno-Ocampo who sought the genocide warrant against Sudan's Omar al-Bashir and to bring a crimes against humanity case against late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

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