Africa: Taylor Appeals Judgment Set for September 26

Arusha — The Appeals Chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone will hand down its judgment in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on September 26. Meanwhile, the government of Congo Brazzaville says judicial procedures in France in the Brazzaville Beach case are "worthless and of no effect".

Brazzaville Beach missing persons case: The government of Congo Brazzaville has scoffed at judicial procedures in France in the case of "the missing of Brazzaville Beach" - several hundred returning refugees who disappeared in 1999 after being detained. French judicial authorities last week indicted a Congolese general, Norbert Dabira, in Paris. "Everything being done in France in this case is worthless and of no effect," Congolese Justice Minister Aimé Emmanuel Yoka declared on Monday in Brazzaville. In 2005 a court in Brazzaville organized a trial after which all the accused were acquitted.

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