Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 March 2021: Sierra Leone has received the first batch of 96,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX programme – a global partnership co-led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), working with [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 March 2021: Sierra Leone’s Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, delivered a keynote address at the launch of the Sierra Leone Program Against Child Trafficking last Tuesday. The virtual event marked the start of a critical initiative to combat child trafficking and care for its victims. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2021: Yesterday Monday, the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone – Hu Zhangliang, presented 200,000 doses of the Chinese made SinoPharm COVID-19 vaccine, and 201,600 disposable needles and syringes to President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown, on behalf of the People’s Republic [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2021: The University of Georgia (UGA), the U.S. Department of State, and World Hope International will co-host a virtual Sierra Leone Child Anti-Trafficking Program Launch Event on Tuesday, March 2nd at 2 pm. This free virtual launch event will detail the results of groundbreaking child [Read More]
Memuna Forna: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 February 2021: Bring your own water! Bring your own blood! Filth encrusted speculum supplied. Sierra Leone’s doctors return to their country to make a difference. These are the conditions under which they are forced to work, and treat patients. There is a critical shortage [Read More]
Dr Fawzia Hardy: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2021: The Covid-19 infection has been around for just over a year now, but it is still wreaking havoc around the world. This pandemic has killed over 2 million people and no country has been spared. The United States which is regarded [Read More]
WHO: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2021: Health authorities in Guinea yesterday declared an outbreak of Ebola in the rural community of Gouéké in N’Zerekore prefecture after three Ebola cases were confirmed by the national laboratory, marking the first time the disease has been reported in the country since an [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: Following confirmation yesterday by the Guinean Health Ministry that four people had died of Ebola at a hospital in the Guinean – Sierra Leone border town of Guerkedou, near the town of Yenga in eastern Sierra Leone, the government of Sierra Leone says it [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: Guinea’s Health Ministry yesterday confirmed that four people have died of Ebola at a hospital in the Guinean – Sierra Leone border town of Guerkedou, near the town of Yenga in eastern Sierra Leone. There are fears this could spark a resurgence of the [Read More]
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