Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 October 2021: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today a commitment of up to $120 million to accelerate access to the investigational antiviral drug molnupiravir for lower-income countries as part of its COVID-19 response effort. The funding will be allocated based on consultations with partners, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2021: UK Transport Minister – Grant Shapps, has today announced that as from 4am next Monday, 11th October 2021, the UK’s Covid red list will reduce to seven countries, with proof of vaccination by travellers arriving to the UK from 37 new countries and territories [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2021: President Julius Maada Bio was yesterday informed by Executive Director Alice Albright and senior leadership team of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) that Sierra Leone is now eligible to receive over $38 Million funding in support of the government’s education promotion agenda. “It [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2021: The National Organization of Sierra Leoneans in North America (NOSLINA), on Tuesday 7th September 2021 donated over a thousand face masks to various markets across Freetown, including Kroo Town Road Market, Dove Cot Market, Congo Market, King Jimmy Market, and Big Market – in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 September 2021: Global leaders, in a side-line event on health during the United Nations General Assembly, voiced the urgent need to scale up Covid-19 vaccine production and access in the wake of a pandemic that has caused unprecedented economic loss and bankrupted health care systems in [Read More]
James Fallah-Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2021: I couldn’t help but laugh when I read the recently released report by the Sierra Leone government, in which it shamelessly praised itself for markedly positive changes in the provision of medical training in Sierra Leone. The government’s report stated that in [Read More]
Prof. Joe A D Alie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2021: Most right-thinking Sierra Leoneans are somehow mad or angry over two related developments: exam malpractice and the mass failure of students in public exams in Sierra Leone. President Bio’s Free Quality Education (FQE) introduced was a welcome move and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2021: The Vice President of Sierra Leone, Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh today Thursday 9th September, formally launched 30 Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDC) in three districts of Bombali, Pujehun and Kambia respectively. The formal launch took place in Sawulia village in the Bombali district. The [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 September 2021: Last week, authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced they have suspended their entry ban on travellers with tourist visas from several countries including Sierra Leone, imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. A joint statement issued by The Federal Authority for [Read More]
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