Dr. Sylvia O Blyden: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2020: Fellow Sierra Leoneans know me as someone who cannot be forced to say what she does not believe in. So my current circumstances should not dilute the strength of my message today. It is not made under duress but is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2020: The World Bank has today announced that its Group Board of Executive Directors has approved a $100 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA), to support the government of Sierra Leone in promoting sustainable and inclusive growth, and building economic resilience. This Development [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2020: Although covid-19 has brought unprecedented decline in global CO2 emissions with an expected significant reduction in global warming, serious concerns are still being raised about the world’s attitude towards the environment and nature. Yesterday, a press statement, titled: “Recover from the Global Recession, We [Read More]
Graça Machel. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Dr. Vera Songwe. Maria Ramos: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2020: COVID 19 has unearthed massive inequalities within our societies and brought to glaring light the unique burdens which women carry the world over. Allocation of response resources should be targeted towards the immediate needs [Read More]
James Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2020: For many around the world, COVID-19 is a first experience of a pandemic. For the people of Sierra Leone, there is spectral familiarity to what is unfolding in the country. With the outbreak of Ebola in May 2014, about 4000 people lost [Read More]
Ibrahim Bendu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2020: Reporters from over ten of Sierra Leone’s leading registered newspapers have confirmed that even as corona virus is spreading inside the Freetown prisons among prisoners, the authorities in Sierra Leone have left the prisoners without adequate water supply for the past ten [Read More]
BBC Africa Eye: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2020: Africa Eye investigates the impact of the deadly Coronavirus in one of the poorest communities in Kenya – Mathare, one of the biggest and most densely-populated slums in Nairobi. The arrival of coronavirus threatens to devastate the fragile economy of Mathare, [Read More]
Joint reflexions by United Nations Senior African Officials: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2020: A desperate yearning for a long-departed mother. Reaching deep from the bowels of fragile humanity. Gasping for breath. Begging for mercy. The entire world heard the tragic cry. The family of nations saw his face pounded [Read More]
Justine Coulson. Roberta Clarke. Mohamed M. Fall: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2020: The passing of laws to end child marriage resulted in blocking thousands of child marriages and enabling second chance education for girls. However, these gains made over the years are in jeopardy in the age of COVID-19. [Read More]
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