Almost a month after voters went to the polls in the first round of elections, Sierra Leone has chosen a new president. Julius Maada Bio inherits an economy in need of reviving, and he must also deliver on promises to curb corruption and provide free education despite not having a parliamentary majority.

When Hissene Habre, Chad’s former president, went on trial in Senegal in 2015, the original charges did not include any mention of sexual violence. But dramatic testimony, including from one woman who said Habre himself raped her, helped move such crimes closer to the top of the agenda of international criminal law.