Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2016 It was just a matter of time for gun violence to erupt in Sierra Leone’s coastal waters, involving illegal Chinese fishing trawlers and banditry. According to report from Reuters, armed Guinean soldiers and their Sierra Leone counterparts opened fire at each other, when the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 May 2016 In several African countries, the rise of a middle-class or middle-income earning group is significantly noticeable. Go to Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Angola, and the evidence can be seen, thanks largely to a huge increase in GDP, fuelled by foreign investments and an expansion [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2016 It is difficult to think of any good story making global news headline about or linked to Sierra Leone in almost a decade, after a brutal civil war that destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. If news making the rounds from [Read More]
Vageesh Jain, Colin Stewart Brown and Oliver Johnson (Global Health Action) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2016 The 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries across West Africa, Europe, and the United States. Sierra Leone is among the predominant three nations affected, alongside Guinea and Liberia. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2016 Globally about 22% of adults over the age of 18 suffer from hypertension, according to statistics from the World Health Organisation in 2014. But in Africa, this figure is higher and sits at 30%. In Sierra Leone there is no record of the number of people [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2016 Dramatic gains in life expectancy have been made globally since 2000, but major inequalities persist within and among countries, according to this year’s “World Health Statistics: Monitoring Health for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”. The report shows that life expectancy increased by 5 years [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2016 In 2015, Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1.5 million people worldwide, and an estimated 26,000 people are infected each day. Prevalence is highest in sub-Saharan Africa, from Ethiopia to South Africa, and in Asia, particularly in India and China. The disease is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, an organism that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2016 There are disturbing stories emerging from London about plans by a small section of the SLPP UK branch membership, believed to be led by some former officers of the executive committee of the branch to stage a coup against the officially recognised and recently [Read More]
Our Correspondent Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2016 Visiting and holding high-level meetings in three cities in two weeks – Kigali and Nairobi in East Africa and Cape Town in Southern Africa, a cascade of appreciative and sustained applause followed one of Sierra Leone’s most recognized and globally respected citizens [Read More]
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