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1 month ago | 
justiceinfo.net | Janet Anderson |Sierra Leone
“Since 2023 a genocide has been unfolding in the Republic of Sudan. The organization that goes by the name the Rapid Support Forces (“RSF”) and militias allied with it have been committing genocide against the Masalit group most notably in West Darfur”, states Sudan in its application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), on March 4, 2025. Sudan adds that “persons among the Masalit were systematically targeted, on the basis of their ethnic identity and the colour of their skin”.
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2 months ago | 
justiceinfo.net | Janet Anderson |Sierra Leone |Andres Bermudez Lievano |Andrés Liévano
Millions of dollars have been frozen, in the last two weeks, by the US administration which will directly or indirectly affect current and future transitional justice projects.Behind the scenes, the long-term work conducted by NGOs on evidence-gathering, analysis, and victim support for accountability for international crimes has been decimated.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
justiceinfo.net | Janet Anderson |Sierra Leone
“Next week we're introducing bipartisan legislation that will prohibit countries cooperating with the [the International Criminal] Court from engaging in business with America. This will fundamentally alter the existing paradigm, and I'm unmoved by whatever international pressure may come my way,” said U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, in an interview to the newspaper Israel Hayom published on Jan 19, 2025.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
justiceinfo.net | Janet Anderson |Sierra Leone
Todd Buchwald, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice from 2015 to 2017, describes the new potential sanctions for the International Criminal Court (ICC) as “draconian” and compares them to those “the U.S. government uses against persons who pose grave national security threats, like al Qaeda members and other terrorists”: “They are designed to cut off any possible avenue for such persons to receive funds or other support.” The court’s president Tomko Akane in her statement...
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
justiceinfo.net | Janet Anderson |Sierra Leone
One of the International Criminal Court’s few remaining trials concluded last week with sentencing hearings, even though a judgment has not yet been issued. The trial of Alfred Rhombot Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona for war crimes and crimes against humanity has been going on since 2021. Both men are being held responsible for attacks by the anti-Balaka militia in the Central African Republic in 2013 and 2014.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
bmccancer.biomedcentral.com | Abdulai Jawo |Isaac Olufemi |Sierra Leone |Caesar Cho
This was a descriptive, retrospective study conducted at the oncology clinic at the Connaught Hospital’s Specialist Outpatient (SOP) unit. The Connaught Hospital is a 300-bed teaching hospital founded in 1912 and is part of the University of Sierra Leone Teaching Hospitals Complex. It is located in the central part of the capital city, Freetown, and is the largest referral health facility in the country. It provides care in two main disciplines: surgery and medicine.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
justiceinfo.net | Janet Anderson |Sierra Leone
As the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor pushes on with arrest warrants against leaders of Israel and Myanmar, the court’s supporters meet in The Hague this week to decide on the regular knotty problem of how much states are willing to pay for justice for atrocity crimes. Every year the representatives of the now 124 member states (Ukraine will join officially in January) that fund the ICC meet in the Hague or New York to discuss the budget.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com | Florence Gyembuzie |Bright Opoku |Sierra Leone
This study examined the trends and inequalities in BCG vaccination coverage among one-year-olds in Sierra Leone. The analysis of BCG immunisation coverage among one-year-olds in Sierra Leone from 2008 to 2019 reveals significant progress, with overall coverage increasing from 82.0% in 2008 to 96.3% in 2019. Coverage was generally higher for children of older mothers (20–49), wealthier families, and mothers with secondary or higher educations.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com | Alpha Umaru |Bright Opoku |Sierra Leone |Ernest Bai Koroma
We utilised data from the 2008, 2013, and 2019 Sierra Leone Demographic Health Survey (SLDHS). The SLDHS is a nationwide survey that aims to uncover long-lasting trends and changes in demographic indicators, health indicators, and social issues among individuals of all genders and age groups [17]. The SLDHS utilised a cross-sectional design, where participants were chosen using a stratified multi-stage cluster sampling process. The SLDHS report thoroughly explains the sampling procedure [17].
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
justiceinfo.net | Janet Anderson |Sierra Leone
Special focus « Hour of reckoning for colonial crimes »
“Are we waiting for the time when there will be no natives to deal with the UK government? It will be too late,” says Olivier Bancoult, head of the Chagos Refugees Group. He’s been campaigning for many years for the rights of his people to return to the tiny archipelago of islands from which they were removed in the 1960’s.
