Balingene Kahombo, Dr. iur. (Free University of Berlin); Associate professor of public law and African international relations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Goma (DRC); Judge (Goma) and former Deputy Prosecutor (Kinshasa); co-founder and member of the Center for Research and Studies on the Rule of Law in Africa (Centre de Recherches et d’Etudes sur l’Etat de Droit en Afrique –CREEDA).