The cash woes that nearly brought the African Court on Human and People's Rights (AfCHPR) to its knees in the recent past have eased.
The Arusha-based judicial organ of the African Union (AU) has seen improved funding for its activities lately with more allocations.
"The financial resources allocation from the AU has increased", said the President of the Court, Lady Justice Imani D. Aboud.
She said here at the weekend that improved funding has seen extended durations of the Court sessions.
The human resources capacity of the continental court has also grown especially with its legal personnel who implement core activities.
Lady Justice Aboud, a former Judge of the High Court of Tanzania, partly attributed the development to the immediate former AfCHPR President Justice Sylvain Ore.
"These are some of the praiseworthy milestones attained during his tenure of office", she said in Arusha at the weekend.
She was speaking at a farewell dinner organized by the Court for Justice Ore, a Cote d'Ivoire national whose tenure ended recently.
Justice Ore, who joined AfCHPR in 2010 as a judge and later elected the Court's President in 2016, was succeeded by Justice Aboud.
"It is indeed under President’s Oré leadership that the Court has attained its highest productivity", she pointed out.
However, Justice Aboud could not reveal details of the financial situation of the Court which gets its budget from the AU Commission and the donor supporters.
She said despite a wave of state withdrawals from the Court,Justice Ore ensured the visibility of the Court through sensitization tours across Africa.
Justice Ore was elected the fifth President of the Court, succeeding Judge Augustine Ramadhani of Tanzania in 2016.
A senior official of the Court revealed recently that the Court intends to establish a Trust Fund to carry out some of its core activities.
These include training of counsels from across the African continent to handle its myriad of cases.
"A study on the establishment of a Trust Fund for the Court has been adopted by the Court", revealed Victor Lowilla, the organ's legal officer.
The proposed financing mechanism is expected to increase the financial resources for the Court by at least 50 percent from the current level.
The Court was established during the African Heads of State Summit in June 1998,started operations in 2006 and relocated to Arusha in 2007.
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