On this edition of Africa 54, world leaders welcome the Biden administration's announced support for waiving patent restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines, the so-called TRIPS waiver, at the World Trade Organization; The International Criminal Court sentences a former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army to 25 years in prison; The WHO warns the delays in the supply of COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa linked to the crisis in India could reignite new waves of infections in the continent.