Tyrant-hunting prosecutor with soldiers in her sights
TASKED with hunting tyrants, Fatou Bensouda has been described as one of the world’s most powerful African women.
She became chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in 2012, a decade after it was set up.
The appointment made her the first African in a top post at the ICC. Born in Gambia, she has lived in The Hague with her husband, a Gambian businessman, and two children for more than a decade.
The 56-year-old former head of the legal advisory unit at the Rwanda tribunal has made it an explicit strategic goal of the court to challenge rape and the exploitation of women and children in war. She lost her son, George, 33, to gun violence this year,