Judge Xue Hanqin (China) elected Vice-President
THE HAGUE
Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf of Somalia has been elected as President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and Judge Xue Hanqin China) was elected Vice President, each for a term of three years.
Mr. Yusuf will take over from French Judge Ronny Abraham to become the 25th President of ICJ as well as the 3rd one from Africa. He has been a Judge at ICJ since 2009 and was elected as its Vice President in February, 2015.
He was born in Eyl, an ancient port town in the northeastern Nugal province of Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland on 12 September, 1948. He received his Ph.D. in International Law from a University from the Graduate Institute of International Studies of General, Switzerland.
