Lyndon Baines-Johnson and Mwai Daka

Lyndon Baines-Johnson is a Development Policy Analyst working in the Mayor’s Delivery Unit of the Freetown City Council in Sierra Leone. He is a Chevening Scholar whose research interests range from development and environmental policy to human wellbeing.

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The declaration of rape as an emergency in Sierra Leone needs to address legal ambiguities in order to combat the scourge of rape and gender-based violence

The declaration of rape as an emergency in Sierra Leone needs to address legal ambiguities in order to combat the scourge of rape and gender-based violence

In February 2019, President Bio of Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency to combat rape and sexual violence. However, if the declaration is to have full effect, ambiguities and gaps within the country’s legal framework need to be ...