Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (OOR): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: Let me start with a direct quote from Sierra Leone’s Public Health Ordinance Act No. 23 of 1960, which is the guiding law on highly contagious diseases for which there is no known cure. Section 42 says: “A Health [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Basic and Senior School Education (MBSSE) and the Teaching Service Commission have launched a radio teaching programme for children and adolescents. The programme covers the core curriculum subjects for primary to senior secondary level education. Working in [Read More]
Mariama Janet Deen: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2020: Approximately sixty percent of Sierra Leoneans live below the national poverty line. Ranked among the world’s poorest nations – 180 out of 187 countries in the Global Human Development Index, more than 60 percent of Sierra Leoneans live on less than [Read More]
Sulaiman Stom Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2020: As always, children, women and girls are most at risk during a crisis. It is no secret that a lot of girls and women are subjected to violence; and sadly, this is significantly affecting their health and wellbeing, more than the [Read More]
Patricia Scotland (Commonwealth Secretary-General): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: Today there is an eerie silence across the globe. Bustling cities have gone quiet and highways that were once jammed with bumper to bumper traffic, are empty. In homes, thousands of families are anxiously awaiting a phone call from a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: BBC Africa is today launching its Covid-19 Have Your Say Programme – a two-week marathon by Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin and Yoruba services on how to prepare for Coronavirus. Each service will showcase a Facebook live programme where the commissioners of health in key states [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2020: It is regrettable but unfortunately true that Africa seems to be a synonym for a lot of life’s undesirables. The continent has been described along the lines of diseases, poverty, war, famine, corruption, etc. From time immoral, right down to the colonial [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2020: The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa now stands at 10,075, with 487 deaths and 913 recoveries from the virus. The number of cases are growing, though much slowly than was seen in China, Italy and Spain last month. There are concerns [Read More]
Sulaiman Stom Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2020: The streets of Freetown are entirely quiet today, you can barely see people walking around, except for few security personnel, vehicles carrying essential staff, monitoring groups, NGO, INGOs, and ambulances. This Covid 19 lockdown brings memories of 19th – 21st September [Read More]
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