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Education and Health

Sierra Leone – living from tragedy to tragedy

August 17, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Joseph Kaifala Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2017 We live from tragedy to tragedy, surviving on strings of misery, but all I hear are prayers, even when God has nothing to do with our suffering. The same leaders who fail us are the ones who encourage us to pray, so [Read More]

Education and Health

Sierra Leone – cholera another disaster waiting to happen   

August 17, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Moses Moore Jr Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2017 Sugary Mount Sugar Loaf is all sour and pale. The diarrhoea that caught the sweet Mount days ago has left it anaemic. The fatal frequenting of mud and rocks devastated the whole immune system of the mount, exposed it to harsh [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Regent disaster forebodings of Dr Banya and the engineers

August 16, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Andrew Keili Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2017 One thing you cannot fault my dear Uncle “Puawui” on is his brains and his passion for what he believes in. The good old Doctor, now in the twilight years of his eventful life also happens to be an avid environmentalist who [Read More]

In Focus

Sierra Leone – nemesis – oh nemesis

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Puawui – Dr. Sama Banya Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017 Just before the publication of my autobiography “Looking back – My Life And Times” I stopped writing; I stopped active political activities except that I would go to SLPP headquarters and pour libation to the founding Fathers and past [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Koroma speaks to the nation about the devastation caused by the floods and landslides

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017  Fellow Sierra Leoneans, our nation has once again been gripped by grief. Many of our compatriots have lost their lives, many more have been gravely injured and billions of Leones worth of property destroyed in the flooding and landslides that swept across some parts [Read More]

Politics & Law

Flooding and mudslide tragedy in Regent

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Brigadier (Rtd) Julius Maada Bio Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017 (Photo: The hills of Freetown before deforestation). On Monday, 14th August 2017 while on a trip abroad, I learnt of the terrible tragedy caused by natural disaster that has befallen various communities in the Western Area of Freetown. While [Read More]

Education and Health

Alie Kabba Speaks about the devastating floods and its destruction of Freetown

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Alie Kabba Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017  With hundreds of our compatriots reported dead or missing, my heart cries out aloud for my country and our people. In the face of this devastating flood, let us come together, even as our tears are pouring down with blood-soaked raindrops. Let [Read More]

In Focus

Sierra Leone faces serious risk of cholera and typhoid outbreak

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017: Following the disastrous event of the mudslide and floods in Freetown on 14 August 2017 wherein over 300 people have died, with a possibility of the death toll rising and over two thousand (2000) rendered homeless, [Read More]

In Focus

Another sad chapter in the history of Sierra Leone

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Bishop J. Archibald Cole Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017 We have today witnessed another sad chapter in the history of our beloved nation, Sierra Leone. This gruesome flooding and mudslide event has only awakened old wounds. Old wounds such as the January 6 tragedy, old wounds such as the [Read More]

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