Amin Kef-Ranger: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2021 A United Kingdom based Charity Trust known as the Sierra Leone Poverty Alleviation Charity Trust (SALPACT), has come to the rescue of a primary school in Freetown – the Rural Education Committee School, commonly referred to as REC Primary School which is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2021: The World Bank on Thursday approved $60 million grant financing to support maternal and child health services that will benefit two million people in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Quality Essential Health Services and Systems Support Project, funded by a $40 million International Development [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 December 2021: Health officials in Freetown yesterday announced the discovery of the country’s first known case of the new Covid 19 Omicron variant, following confirmation of a surge in the number of positive Covid cases recorded in the last few days. According to the government, PCR [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2021: NACOVERC has announced another fifteen new cases recorded in Sierra Leone today, following yesterday’s report of three cases out of a sample of 477. Today’s reported cases bring the total number of cumulative positive cases to 6,420. It is still not certain whether the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2021: After almost six months of zero new cases of Covid infection in Sierra Leone, yesterday NaCOVERC announced that it had discovered three new positive cases. This news comes as the country braces itself for the new COVID-19 variant – Omicron, which is now making [Read More]
Alhaji U. N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2021: The discovery of a novel Covid-19 variant (Omicron) in South Africa with significant mutations in its spike protein raises a lot of concerns and questions about the virus. First, a big thank you to South African scientists for diligent sequencing and [Read More]
WHO: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 November 2021: Fifteen African countries—nearly a third of the continent’s 54 nations—have fully vaccinated 10% of their people against COVID-19. The global goal of fully vaccinating 10% of every country’s population by 30 September was set in May by the World Health Assembly, the world’s [Read More]
Isata Kabia: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 November 2021: Silent, polite and obedient women can’t change the world for the better. So why are these the norms young girls everywhere are taught to follow? (Photo above: Isata Kabia). At the end of October, I attended the Amujae Leadership Forum – a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2021: Merck Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, marks ‘World Diabetes Day 2021’ together with African First Ladies, Ministries of Health, Medical Societies, and Academia through their long-term program to build healthcare capacity and improving access for Diabetes, Hypertension and Endocrinology, by [Read More]
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