June 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Chinese firm CRJE (East Africa) Ltd will finally be in charge of the construction of the new headquarters of the African Court for Human and People’s Rights in Arusha, in the north of Tanzania, in line with the expansion of the Asian giant in the field of the infrastructures in the African continent, and that knows its last episode with this new contract.
The project is estimated at around 24 million euros, of which Tanzania will contribute approximately 3.5 million. The rest will be dealt with by the court itself with contributions from “other partners”, according to The East African news portal.
This is the second large contract signed by a Chinese company in this field since the one agreed in April by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation for the construction of the new headquarters of the pan-African organization Intergovernmental Authority on Development in Djibouti for around 40 million euro.
China was awarded in 2020, according to estimates by the Deloitte firm, at least 31 large-scale infrastructure projects (valued at least 45 million euros) in Africa, an increase of 12 percent since 2013.
The courthouse will be built on a 24-hectare site on the outskirts of Arusha and the project is expected to be completed in two years. The court, until now, had its headquarters shared with that of the National Parks service of Tanzania.
The court was established in 1998 but did not begin to act until 2007 amid the great obstacles it has had to go through, partly due to the mistrust of several countries towards the so-called Article 34 of its constitution, which allows individuals to directly present their complaints. before the court without previously exhausting judicial remedies at the national level.
Of the 34 African countries that have ratified the court protocol, according to The East African, only eight have accepted this article, and even Tanzania itself withdrew from the clause in November 2019.
