Siera Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2021: Sierra Leone has recorded one of its highest daily new cases of Covid infection since the Global pandemic was announced in February 2021. Yesterday Saturday 5th of June, the government said that 20 new cases of Covid infection were recorded, bringing the total number [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2021: Sierra Leone has recorded 4,115 cases of Coronavirus since the pandemic began in March 2020, as 8 new cases were reported yesterday 20 May 2021. On average, three new cases are recorded every day in the country. So far, the number of deaths remain [Read More]
Damien Mama: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2021: When, in early April, I met Akuvi Sossah, a 52-year-old mother of four at the local medical centre in a northern suburb in Togo’s capital Lomé, she proudly showed me the confirmation code on her mobile phone for her first COVID-19 vaccine [Read More]
Veronica Mukhuna: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2021: Clara Magalasi, who lives in a rural village near Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi, woke up to a grey morning with a dull sky that was threatening rain. For Ms. Magalasi, the weather did not stop her from walking the 4 [Read More]
Olusegun Akinfenwa: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2021: Due to poverty, wars, famine, and poor living standards, Africans migrate in droves to Europe, America, and Asia and other countries within the continent. Not all who wish to move have the wherewithal to obtain visas and other required immigration procedures. Hence [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 May 2021: “Serving a hard to reach community like Alikalia comes with a lot of challenges. The good thing, however, is my contribution in promoting safe motherhood and in reducing maternal mortality which I am proud of as a midwife,” said Regina Conteh, a midwife attached [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 April 2021: In a ceremony held at the National Stadium in Freetown, on April 23, U.S. Ambassador David Reimer joined the Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), Dr. Anthony Augustine Sandi, Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr. Satti Kenneh, Permanent Secretary of MoHS, and other dignitaries [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2021: The government of Sierra Leone and the World Health Organisation have today announced that US pharmaceutical company – Johnson & Johnson, has donated thousands of Ebola vaccines to Sierra Leone to help prevent any major outbreak of the virus in the country. This comes [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2021: Today is World Health Day, and a new analysis by WaterAid shows that every single healthcare centre in the world’s poorest countries could have taps and toilets for just half-an-hour’s worth of Covid response spending. As G20 finance ministers meet this week in Rome [Read More]
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