Report on the Exchange Programme between Young Lawyers from Central and East Africa and the Judiciary of Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, in Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo), Kigali (Rwanda) and Nairobi (Kenya) from 6 to 15 February 2016

• Published in: Recht in Afrika
• Main Authors: Aniello Ambrosio, Mirjam Bäumer-Götz, Caroline Gräser, Mario Mannweiler, Ca- rola Osswald, Cornelia Rank, Christian Trauthig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English; French
• Published: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2016
• Subjects: Asia and Eurasia; Africa; Pacific Area; and Antarctica; KL-KWX; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5771/2363-6270-2016-1-94; https://doaj.org/article/45058c1b19b743fc9efd4b49eacf62ee

In February 2016 seven German judges and public prosecutors of the judiciary of Baden- Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz had the great opportunity of a ten-day-visit to either Rwanda or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a joint conference on “Require- ments for an Independent and Effective Judiciary” in Nairobi, Kenya. The whole visit was part of an exchange programme between young lawyers from Central and East Africa and the judiciary of Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz. From 5 to 18 October 2014 sev- en African lawyers (prosecutors, advocates and a judge) from Burundi, Rwanda and the DRC had already come to Stuttgart, Germany.1 The exchange programme was organized and coordinated by Professor Hartmut Hamann of the African Law Association and the Robert Bosch Foundation in cooperation with the competent Ministries of State and Justice of Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz.2 During the first part of the visit, four mem- bers of the German delegation went to Lubumbashi, DRC, while the other three members travelled to Kigali, Rwanda. The second part of the visit brought the German participants, their African exchange partners and other young lawyers from Central and East Africa to- gether in a conference in Nairobi, Kenya.