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From June 26–27, 2014, the Assembly of the African Union at its 23rd Ordinary Session adopted the Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights. According to a news story, the proposed amendments include a provision that “[n]o charges shall be commenced or continued before the Court against any serving African Union Head of State or Government, or anybody acting or entitled to act in such capacity, or other senior state officials based on their functions, during their tenure of office.” The Assembly also adopted, inter alia, the Protocol on the Establishment of the African Monetary Fund, African Convention on Cross Border Cooperation (Niamey Convention), and the Protocol to the Constitutive Act of the African Union on the Pan-African Parliament.