Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2015 According to Sierra Leone News Agency, the director of the country’s reproductive and child health programme in the ministry of health and sanitation – Dr. Santigie Sesay, has confirmed the fears of most people. Sesay said that the Ebola outbreak has had an adverse [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 June 2015: This week saw the weekly confirmed Ebola cases reported in Sierra Leone reaching a two-month high of sixteen cases, up from only two a month ago – says the International Office for Migration (IOM) in Sierra Leone. In a report published today, IOM says [Read More]
Tonderayi Mukeredzi Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2015 Despite witnessing exceptional growth in development finance in recent years, Africa is still faced with the arduous task of mobilizing adequate resources to fund its growth and future transformation agenda. Given the paucity of external development assistance, and low commodity prices for [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2015 On 10 May 2015, a day after the World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free, stern-faced health officials were holding marathon meetings in different rooms at the country’s health ministry. Their business-like mood contrasted with the celebratory atmosphere on the streets of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2015 Dr. Fuambai Sia Ahmadu’s (Photo) article about so called FGM published here, was always going to be highly controversial and thought provoking. But this is nothing new for Sierra Leone’s most formidable African women empowerment advocate and champion. Almost single-handedly taking on the rich [Read More]
Fuambai Sia Ahmadu, PhD (Editor in-Chief and Publisher – SiA Magazine) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2015 A couple of weeks or so ago Reverend Kabs Kanu’s Cocorioko, published a cover picture of some random, recycled internet image of a presumably African woman – her arms flailing and she is [Read More]
Ecoma Alaga and Ndidi Anyaegbunam Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2015 At this year’s annual summit of the African Union, attending leaders declared 2015 the Year of Women’s Empowerment, in acknowledgement of the increasing role women are playing in Africa’s development. (Photo: Market women protesting in Freetown). The declaration comes [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2015 A few weeks after she was sworn in as Malawi’s first female president, Joyce Banda (Photo: Left – with Sirleaf) travelled to Liberia in late April 2012 to meet President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has occupied Liberia’s highest office since January 2006. [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay-Freetown Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2015 Sierra Leone’s Vice President, Ambassador Victor Bockarie Foh on Friday, 12 June, said that the Government of President Ernest Bai Koroma gives great prominence to the issue of women empowerment and gender equality, as could be seen in Pillar 8 of the [Read More]
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