Zainab Tunkara Clarkson 11 October 2014 Notwithstanding the health and environmental woes that Ebola has brought upon the people of Sierra Leone, we now have the added problem of Ebola producing a new generation of illiterate citizens. Over two million children are today unable to attend school. In the last [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2014 The total number of cumulative confirmed cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone recorded on the 9th October, stood at 2604 (an increase of 100 compared to the reported increase of 88 two days ago). Freetown is now topping all districts and has become the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2014 Serious violence has once again erupted in the western business district of Freetown for a second day running, as okada riders this afternoon confronted armed police officers belonging to the country’s Operational Security Division (OSD), during the funeral of one of their colleagues who [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2014 On Thursday, 8 October, Sierra Leone’s minister of health and sanitation – Dr. Abu Bakarr Fofanah (Photo) officially thanked the Cuban government for coming to the aid of Sierra Leone in the fight to contain the Ebola outbreak in the country. Ebola has affected [Read More]
Farouk Martins The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2014 The alarming death in the United States of Ebola carrier Thomas Eric Duncan has created hysteria in the community and stigmatized Africans. If victims are quarantined at home in Liberia or USA, we must supply them food and drinks. His hosts [Read More]
Culled from BBC News Manchester, UK Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2014 A headteacher has blamed “misguided hysteria” about Ebola for the cancellation of a school visit by a nine-year-old boy from Sierra Leone. Kofi Mason-Sesay (Photo) had been due to attend classes this month at St Simon’s Catholic Primary [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2014 Today’s sad death of Eric Duncan (Photo) – the first person to die of Ebola in the USA, who fell ill after arriving from Liberia a few weeks ago, appears to have brought a sharp turning point in the response of the USA and [Read More]
Ismail Mahmud Sheriff Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2014 “I contracted Ebola because of love; I was caring for my mother and father who have now died of the disease”. Fatmata Kamara, 30, wept uncontrollably as she recounted her traumatic ordeal. Fatmata was giving the vote of thanks at an official [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 October 2014 Since the first ever recorded case of Ebola in Sierra Leone six months ago, there have been persistent calls for a stop to the under-reporting of the number of people contracting and dying from the virus. But these calls seem to be falling on [Read More]
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