Ibrahima KANE
- Principal investigators
- 03/2025
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Presentation
As a highly topical issue, this seminar has a dual interest. On the one hand, from a scientific perspective, it offers a valuable opportunity for researchers, academics, and a public interested in African affairs to engage in dialogue, share analytical perspectives, and explore the complex dynamics of regional integration. It also aims to reflect on integration models adapted to the specific realities of each region, capable of providing concrete recommendations to decision-makers.
On the other hand, from a strategic point of view, this seminar on African regionalism is of particular importance in light of recent events marking the African debate: the questioning of the ECOWAS integration model, the crises in the Sahel, the tensions in the DRC, as well as the emergence of new alliances, among others.
Biography
Ibrahima Kane is Special Advisor to the Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation-Africa in charge of advocacy on the African Union and a lawyer qualified in Senegal and France. Before joining the Open Society Foundation in 2007, he was a senior legal officer in charge of the Africa program at INTERIGHTS for 10 years.
As a founding member of RADDHO, a Senegalese human rights organization, Kane led a six-year program focused on public education and women’s human rights in five West African countries: Cape Verde, the Republic of Guinea, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal.
Ibrahima has a particular interest in economic, social and cultural rights, women’s rights, the rights of migrants and refugees, nationality issues on the African continent, and the pursuit of justice through regional and international mechanisms. Over the past fifteen years, Kane has worked closely with and appeared before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Union Commission, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the Court of Justice of the East African Community (EAC). He has authored and coordinated the drafting and publication of several reports and articles on the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the protection of human rights by regional economic community organs. He was also an Associate Professor at the University of Essex Law School from 2005 to 2011.
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