The Chief Justice of Tanzania and a Gambian national are among candidates shortlisted to replace International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
Mohamed Chande Othman who is Tanzania’s CJ and Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian who is the current ICC deputy prosecutor are among four candidates shortlisted for the post to replace Ocampo when his term ends next year.
Other shortlisted candidates are Andrew Cayley, international co-prosecutor in the Cambodian court and Robert Petit, a war crimes counsel in Canada's Department of Justice.
The four were short listed by the selection committee of the Assembly of States Parties, which oversees the court.
Bensouda was appointed the ICC's deputy prosecutor in September 2004 and previously worked as a legal adviser and trial attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania.
She has long been regarded as the favourite to take over from Moreno-Ocampo, particularly at a time when the ICC's cases are largely focused on Africa.
The tough-talking Argentinian Moreno-Ocampo has won praise for his role in promoting the work of the ICC. He has launched seven formal investigations, issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir, and begun three trials.
But he has also been criticised because of the ICC's slow progress and for failing to bring a larger number of senior government officials to trial for various atrocities.
One of the cases presented to ICC is from Kenya.
Six suspects have appeared before the ICC over the 2008 Post Election Violence.
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