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Sierra Leone: Fourah Bay College Wins Third National Moot Court IHL Competition

24-04-2007 News Release

A team of three students from the Department of Law, Fourah Bay College, have emerged as winners of the third National Moot Court Competition on international humanitarian law (IHL) organized by the ICRC in Sierra Leone. Teams representing six different colleges from across the country took part in this year's competition.

 The following was issued as a press release by the ICRC delegation in Freetown on 24 April 2007  

The competition involved two days of role-playing among Njala, Fourah Bay College, Milton Margai, the International Institute of Islamic Studies (Freetown), Eastern Polytechnic (Kenema) and Northern Polytechnic (Makeni), in order to find the best two teams to meet in the final.

In the end, Fourah Bay College and the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology faced each other as defence and prosecution in a fictional case involving a humanitarian crisis in the'Federal Republic of Leonia'in the very real court setting of trial chamber 2 of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

They faced an austere panel of judges, presided over by the President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Justice King, two senior State Counsels, Cosmotina Jarret (also the legal adviser for the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society) and Sulaiman Bah Esq, as well as Lt. Col. I.M. Koroma, legal adviser of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces.

A delegation from ICRC Monrovia and the University of Liberia observed the competition and assisted in judging the two rounds of role-playing. The National Moot Court IHL Competition is an annual event organized by the ICRC and open to all students of higher education in the country with a fair knowledge of IHL. The team of three law students will represent Sierra Leone in the 7th Pan-African Moot Court Competition in Arusha, Tanza nia, in November 2007.

 For further information, please contact:  

 Kirsty Macdonald, ICRC Freetown, tel: +232 76 821 506  

 Abu Bakr Gamanga, Freetown, tel: +232 76 629 207  




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