Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2020: The Ministry of Information and Communications in collaboration with the Department for Science and Technological Innovation (DSTI), Statistics Sierra Leone and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, will tomorrow Friday 7 August 2020, be launching the Sierra Leone COVID-19 Response Online Hub. The online [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2020: The World Health Organization Country Office has secured a grant of €500,000 from the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ) through a strategic partnership to increase COVID-19 testing capacity from 500 up to 1000 tests per day in Sierra Leone. The support will ensure the procurement [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 July 2020: The BBC’s global reach increased by 11% year on year in 2020 to 468.2m people a week – the highest number ever. BBC News in Africa has had an impressive year and now reaches 132 million people a week across 12 language services and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2020: It is now almost eighteen months since President Dr Julius Maada Bio declared a national state of emergency on the growing rape crisis in Sierra Leone. Yesterday, he once again called on parents and local communities to support his government’s efforts in tackling rape, [Read More]
TFSL: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 July 2020: Sierra Leone aspires to be a place of equal opportunity, yet where children are born still too often determines their educational and life trajectories. Educational inequality limits the life prospects of millions of children. 4 out of 5 children within the age range [Read More]
Oswald Hanciles (The Guru): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 July 2020: The educational systems in Sierra Leone have been monumental failures. It is obvious. The festering poverty of Sierra Leoneans sitting on top of some of the wealthiest marketable natural resources in the world is a gnawing pointer to the poor [Read More]
BBC Africa Eye: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 July 2020: An underworld of quack doctors have been exploiting the coronavirus pandemic and making money selling fake coronavirus cures. Investigative reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas goes undercover in Ghana, exposing a Covid-19 scam said to be worth tens of thousands of dollars. WHO [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2020: The World Bank Board of Executive Directors yesterday approved a $50 million grant to support the Government of Sierra Leone’s flagship program for Free Quality School Education launched in 2018. According to the World Bank, the Free Education Project will support some initial COVID-19 [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 June 2020: The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education must be commended for its most recent Annual school census report, which is considerably more revealing than in previous years. The SLPP government initiated its flagship Free Quality School Education (FQSE) programme in September, 2018. [Read More]
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