Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2020: Sierra Leone has today recorded another two confirmed cases of the coronavirus, bringing the cumulative total to six. One of the infected is an Italian and the other is a Sierra Leonean. According to reports, both are believed to have been in self-isolation after [Read More]
Anthony Kamara Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2020: The numbers coming in from around the world are daunting. Reading the news is frightening. Even worse, are the disturbing pictures we see on TV about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic around the world. As the world careens into another [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2020: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation today launches its report on COVID-19 in Africa, calling for coordinated governance, improved health structures and better data to mitigate this crisis. In the publication, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation analyses Africa’s readiness and capacity to manage this pandemic. It draws on [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay: 31 March 2020: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) commends the decision of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education to lift the ban on pregnant girls attending school. “As co-chair of the Sexual Reproductive Health Taskforce, established in December 2019, I personally applaud the Minister [Read More]
Memuna Forna: 27 March 2020: In a pandemic, communication is key. But then, I would say that – wouldn’t I? It’s my job. As recently as last week, while the rest of the world was visibly reeling under the Covid-19 pandemic, I spoke to members of the Sierra Leonean business [Read More]
Professor Richard Black: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 March 2020: Whilst journalists and commentators have focused recently on lessons from Asia in relation to the current Covid-19 pandemic, with some referencing pandemics that have hit Europe and North America in the past, a less obvious question to ask is whether there [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2020: A fake news report published in an online publication – ucrtv.com, claiming that Sierra Leone has recorded its first case of the coronavirus, is maliciously untrue according to government officials in Freetown. Despite the deputy minister of information earlier this week warning the media [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2020: The Commonwealth has developed a coronavirus tracker that shows daily cases in member countries. The tracker collects data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and shows the total confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths in the affected member countries. The tool is designed to help [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2020: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has this afternoon declared a state of public emergency in response to the growing threat of the coronavirus that has engulfed the whole world, killing tens of thousands of people. Sierra Leone is yet to record a [Read More]
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