Education and Health

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: Professor Benedict Oramah wears many hats. He is the President of the Africa Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank), the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the African Union COVID-19 Response Fund and a member of the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (AVAT), an initiative of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2021: The United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced it will provide $1 million in urgent COVID-19 assistance to Sierra Leone. The government of Sierra Leone is facing serious financial shortfall, as donor countries cut their aid budget [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2021: The government of Sierra Leone last night announced it has lifted its ban on churches and mosques’ Sunday and Friday worship, a measure imposed by the government to help curtail the rising numbers of Covid infections, hospitalisation, and deaths. According to the public notice [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2021: Early this year, Sierra Leone’s ministry of health received 260,000 doses of covid vaccines from the international community to help the country’s fight against Covid-19. The vaccines, which came from China and western donor countries through the COVAX scheme, had latgely gone into the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2021: With more than 75 percent of the UK adult population now vaccinated for Covid, there is still a hard core of African and Caribbean people that are reluctant or hesitant to take the jab. In Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK, the City Council is working [Read More]

ING. Dr. Juana P. Moiwo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 August 2021: It was Thursday, the 22nd of July 2021, and I was to make a five-day dash to Kailahun to attend a workshop and to also use that space to see my people. My family and I had agreed days [Read More]

Barbara Nel (AstraZeneca): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 July 2021: The response to the pandemic has shown the speed of mobilization and vaccine science at its best. Faced with an unprecedented challenge, governments, international organizations, the health care industry and global health experts have come together on a scale never seen [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 July 2021: Last Friday, five pupils graduated from the Freetown City Council’s (FCC) Early Learning Adventure-Congo Water Market, in Wellington – first of the FCC’s pre-school centres for children of market women. A few months ago, at the start of the academic year, FCC enrolled 40 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 July 2021: Launched in 2014, the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and embodies the U.S. commitment to invest in the future of Africa. YALI was created in 2010 and supports young Africans as they [Read More]