A former Court of Appeal Judge Joyce Aluoch has been elected as the first vice president of the International Criminal Court.
Aluoch, who has been serving as a trial judge at The Hague since 2009, made history as the first woman from Africa to be elected to the position.
She will now be part of the presidency – consisting of the president and the two vice presidents – who play a key role in providing strategic leadership to the ICC.
Yesterday, the ICC judges sitting in a plenary session also elected Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi (Argentina) as president of the court and judge Kuniko Ozaki (Japan) as second vice president.