Britain’s Karim Khan has been sworn-in as the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, facing huge challenges, including investigations into the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan and the Philippines.
Fifty-one years old Khan who is a former defence lawyer for the Hague-based tribunal, was elected by ICC member states to serve a nine-year tenure at the world’s only permanent war crimes court.
Reports say he has been left with a huge case file by his predecessor Fatou Bensouda, who extended the ICC’s reach so dramatically that she was hit by US sanctions but also suffered a series of high-profile failures.