Education and Health

Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 September 2025: Sierra Leone is faced with a silent epidemic that is destroying lives and threatening the very foundation of our future: our young people. This epidemic is the Kush crisis, a cheap drug destroying our youth with deadly consequences. Once rare and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2025: Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union (SLTU) has announced that starting Monday 8th September 2025, it along with its associated unions will go out on strike, following the government’s persistent failure to invest in the country’s primary education sector. In a letter written by the SLTU [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2025: An international review has found that Madagascar has laid strong foundations for cancer control, expanding cervical cancer services, maintaining a health workforce and ensuring collaboration between health and radiation safety authorities. The joint imPACT review by the IAEA, World Health Organization (WHO) and International [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2025: The Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance this week endorsed a series of adjustments to bring Gavi’s strategy for its next five-year period (2026-2030) in line with available resources while it continues to engage with donors that have not yet been able to pledge [Read More]

Gavi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2025: In a powerful demonstration of commitment to country ownership of immunisation, new data released today shows that lower-income countries supported by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance collectively contributed nearly US$255 million towards their own vaccination programmes in 2024 — a 19% increase from 2023. Furthermore, 84% of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2025: Although the global majority of teachers are women, a new UNESCO report provides evidence that a glass ceiling still bars women from leadership positions in education. The report also shows how women leaders in education often have a positive impact on inclusion, addressing challenges [Read More]

Lisa Schnirring: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2025: Cases continue to climb sharply in Sierra Leone, and the head of the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) said the surge is a major focus of the outbreak response, partly to prevent the virus from spreading to other West African [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2025: Improvements in the forecasting, monitoring, identification, and reporting of diseases are expected to take hold following the establishment of the Continental Surveillance Advisory Group (CSAG), aimed at bolstering Africa’s disease surveillance capabilities. This was among the key outcomes of a meeting hosted from 23 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2025: New littering and waste dumping restriction byelaws have come into effect in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown to help keep the city clean. With tons of litter dropped every year across the streets and roads of the capital, causing environmental health issues and eyesore, Mayor [Read More]