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Unfulfilled Promise: Kenema’s War Victims Endure Deplorable Conditions
By Josephine Nyeweah (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025) Twenty-three years after Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war, hundreds of…
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Sierra Leone’s Free Education Dream: Strained, Stretched, and Still Standing
By Brima Sannoh (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025) In the dusty classrooms of rural Pujehun District, pupils cram…
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“Sold, Exploited, and Forgotten: How Human Trafficking Still Plagues Sierra Leone
By Brima Sannoh (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025) When Joseph Bockarie Kamara left Bo in southern Sierra Leone…
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Sierra Leone: The Long Road to Recovery for Young War Survivors
By Fatmata Tidankay Kamara (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025) The Sierra Leonean civil war was characterized by mass…
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“They Just Disappeared”: Sierra Leone’s Fragile Fight Against Child Trafficking
By Brima Sannoh (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025) In the quiet town of Pujehun, near Sierra Leone’s southern…
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How the Special Court of Sierra Leone Came into Existence; is it Purpose being fulfilled?
By Saidu Ibrahim Kamara (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025) For more than a decade, Sierra Leone was engulfed…
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Congo Cross Renamed as ‘Peace Bridge’; But Has the Nation Forgotten Why?
By Zainab Sunkary Koroma (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025) It was once the frontline of resistance, a final…
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“The war ended, but our minds didn’t”: The struggle for mental health in Sierra Leone.
By Alfred Koroma (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025) In a small apartment in Shell, Freetown, 60-year-old Adama Sesay,…
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Justice, inclusion, and accountability: Lessons from Sierra Leone’s civil war
By Alfred Koroma (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025) Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war (1991–2002) remains a harrowing case…
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The African Union Transitional Justice Policy: Tackling the Legacies of Previous Human Rights Violations, Conflict, and Instability.
The African Union (AU) Transitional Justice Policy is a comprehensive framework designed to guide African countries…