Workshop for Nigerian prosecutors and investigators to enhance interagency collaboration to bring the electronic case-file database to fruition
2021-11-29 08:00 - 2021-11-30 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Abuja, Nigeria
Over the course of the week from 29 November to 3 December 2021, the Wayamo Foundation held two different workshops in Abuja, both in their respective ways linked to the need to address international crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Both workshops followed a hybrid model, with participants and local experts present in Abuja and international experts joining them via Zoom.
Click here for the pictures of the “interagency collaboration” workshop.
The first of these workshops brought together prosecutors from the Complex Casework Group (CCG) and investigators from the Joint Investigation Centre and 7 Military Investigations Bureau, as a practical step aimed at “enhancing interagency collaboration to bring the electronic case-file database for terrorism files to fruition”. In order for this newly created database and its case- and evidence-management software to attain their combined potential, investigators and prosecutors need to collaborate from the earliest stages of an investigation. This database will also serve to build more complex cases which may address international crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the ICC.

Third workshop for the Serious Crimes Response Team
2021-12-01 08:00 - 2021-12-03 17:00 | Abuja, Nigeria
Over the course of the week from 29 November to 3 December 2021, the Wayamo Foundation held two different workshops in Abuja, both in their respective ways linked to the need to address international crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Both workshops followed a hybrid model, with participants and local experts present in Abuja and international experts joining them via Zoom.
Click here for the pictures of the “Serious Crimes Response Team” workshop.
The second workshop was entirely military in nature, and centred on the ongoing project of creating a Serious Crimes Response Team (SCRT), a highly specialised unit of military investigators and prosecutors drawn from all three services, who will be specifically trained to investigate and prosecute serious crimes that have allegedly been committed by the Armed Forces and potentially fall under the jurisdiction of the ICC.

Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone added to wayamo’s “Justice in West Africa” web portal
2022-02-14 08:00 - 17:00
The Wayamo Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Rule of Law Programme for Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa are proud to announce the launch of three additional country pages on the “Justice in West Africa” website, a bilingual online resource platform of accountability efforts for international crimes.
The website provides an interactive database in both English and French covering: the domestic prosecution of international crimes across a host of West African countries; regional and hybrid justice mechanisms; the work of the International Criminal Court in the region; and expert analysis in the form of video interviews. The additional three country pages of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria were added to the website, alongside the already online pages of Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Senegal.

Case assessment and redrafting charges training for Nigeria’s Complex Casework Group
2022-03-01 08:00 - 2022-03-31 17:00
Throughout March 2022 the Wayamo Foundation held a series of training sessions for prosecutors from Nigeria’s Complex Casework Group (CCG) focusing on using custom-built digital case assessment tools to identify cases that touch on potential international crimes, and on redrafting charges – if necessary – to reflect those crimes under Nigerian law.

Expert workshop: countering terrorism and international crimes
2022-05-26 08:00 - 2022-05-27 17:00 | Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Countering terrorism and international crimes: human rights implications and linkages

Wayamo Foundation and KAS Rule of Law Program for Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa take pride in announcing that they will be holding a two-day expert workshop in Pretoria on the nexus and linkages between terrorism, human rights, and international crimes. This workshop will bring together counter-terrorism and international criminal justice experts, human rights advocates, academics and practitioners from Europe and selected countries from Eastern, Southern and West Africa.
The discussions will begin with a review of existing counter-terrorism conventions and national legal frameworks. The invited experts will each get an opportunity to discuss their country’s counter-terrorism legislation and the challenges involved in enforcing it at the national level. How to deal with the emerging (and often controversial) role of armed forces in providing evidence for terrorism trials? How do prosecutors and judges in these countries deal with the relatively new challenges of charging and adjudicating terrorism-related crimes, especially where these amount to international crimes?

Subjects to be explored include:

rule-of-law approach to countering terrorism;
criminal justice sector response to terrorism;
cumulative prosecution for core international crimes and terrorism-related offences;
identifying terrorist acts that meet the legal definitions of core international crimes;
affirming the centrality of a fair trial to the successful prosecution of terrorist acts;
chronic problems of counterinsurgency and counter-terrorist operations and how to overcome them; and,
the collection of evidence on the battlefield by the military:the use and admissibility of battlefield evidence to prosecute terrorist offences.
