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New ICTR president

[Sierra Leone] Abrahim Conteh sieves the diamond gravel in Sierra Leone's Kono district. [Date picture taken: 08/05/2006]
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Abrahim Conteh sieves the diamond gravel in Sierra Leone's Kono district.
The UN has appointed South African judge Navanethem Pillay as president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for a period of two years, according to a press release from the Tribunal. She replaces outgoing president Judge Laity Kama of Senegal whose mandate has expired. Judge Pillay has been working at the Tribunal since May 1995.

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