From 19–21 November 2025, the Wayamo Foundation hosted mentorship sessions for Sudanese civil society actors and lawyers in Kampala, Uganda.
The sessions built on previous one-on-one engagements with Sudanese civil society organisations and included expert guidance on practical ways to strengthen their work and improve documentation practices.
In July 2025, Wayamo initiated a new pilot program aimed at conducting deeper investigations into a select number of incidents, while ensuring — through a more intensive monitoring process — that our Sudanese network members document them in a manner suitable for future accountability processes.
Each of the organisations in the network were assigned specific incidents to work on and document according to the heightened accountability standards. Tools such as screening forms and supplementary information templates have been shared, along with access to bespoke technological tools for recording, saving, and storing information in a professional manner.
The latest sessions in Kampala tracked the progress made since similar sessions in Kampala, Nairobi and online. The panel of experts heard presentations and provided detailed feedback on both the quality of the information collected and on possible next steps with respect to their individual investigation/documentation efforts.
The expert team included:
- Linda Bore, International Criminal Lawyer & Project Coordinator, Wayamo Foundation
- Mikel Delagrange, Senior International Legal Advisor, Wayamo Foundation
- Amanda Ghahremani, Legal Consultant, International Criminal Law & Redress for Survivors of Atrocity Crimes
- Abdalbasit Mohamed, Legal and Research Officer, Wayamo Foundation
- Priyanka Motaparthy, Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, as well as a Clinical Professor of Law
- Dahirou Sant-Anna, International Cooperation Adviser to the Darfur Team of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Wayamo has worked with a network of Sudanese human rights defenders and independent lawyers since the current conflict in Sudan erupted in April 2023. The network is committed to undertaking documentation for the purposes of accountability, and since the outbreak of war Wayamo has held training sessions on topics ranging from international criminal law and open-source investigations to the application of universal jurisdiction for international crimes.
The ultimate goal is to compile near-complete case files that can, inter alia, be handed over to prosecuting authorities, whether at the ICC, universal-jurisdiction venues in the region, fact-finding missions, or regional human-rights bodies.
