John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Basic and Senior School Education (MBSSE) and the Teaching Service Commission have launched a radio teaching programme for children and adolescents. The programme covers the core curriculum subjects for primary to senior secondary level education. Working in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2020: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sierra Leone now stands at 10, following the discovery of two new cases today. Yesterday’s 8th case is believed to be a South African lady who has been in quarantine. Yesterday, neighbouring Guinea recorded 18 new cases, [Read More]
Mariama Janet Deen: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2020: Approximately sixty percent of Sierra Leoneans live below the national poverty line. Ranked among the world’s poorest nations – 180 out of 187 countries in the Global Human Development Index, more than 60 percent of Sierra Leoneans live on less than [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: 11 April 2020: In a WhatsApp message, purported to have been written by Dr Sylvia Blyden, (Not verified), she appears to praise President Maada Bio “for many aspects of this fight against the outbreak of the Covid-19 in Sierra Leone”. She praises the government’s “proactiveness, farsightedness and alacrity” [Read More]
Sulaiman Stom Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2020: As always, children, women and girls are most at risk during a crisis. It is no secret that a lot of girls and women are subjected to violence; and sadly, this is significantly affecting their health and wellbeing, more than the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been significantly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and is forecast to fall sharply from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020, the first recession in the region over the past 25 years, according to the latest [Read More]
Patricia Scotland (Commonwealth Secretary-General): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: Today there is an eerie silence across the globe. Bustling cities have gone quiet and highways that were once jammed with bumper to bumper traffic, are empty. In homes, thousands of families are anxiously awaiting a phone call from a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: BBC Africa is today launching its Covid-19 Have Your Say Programme – a two-week marathon by Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin and Yoruba services on how to prepare for Coronavirus. Each service will showcase a Facebook live programme where the commissioners of health in key states [Read More]
Kandeh Yumkella MP: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: With all due respect to all of us in this noble House, who are all in this forum, a string of press releases from State House, various ministries, departments and the police do not constitute “regulations” for a State of Public Emergency [Read More]
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