Education and Health

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 January 2023: The World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Committee for COVID-19 has advised that COVID-19 continue to be categorized a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The Committee, which is established under the International Health Regulations (IHR) and convened by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph:  26 January 2023: The COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership, (CoVDP), yesterday handed over vehicles including motorbikes and computers worth over $2.8 million to support Government of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 vaccine deployment. CoVDP is a joint venture of the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (Gavi), the United Nations Children’s [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2022: Two days ago, we marked the Seventh Anniversary of the Declaration of the End of the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone. We lost 3956 of our brothers and sisters, in some instances whole families and villages were wiped out. Today [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2022: Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr’s efforts to transform Freetown and transform lives is paying huge dividends, with thousands of young children in poor neighbourhoods, given access to early learning opportunity that is key to their development and growth. In the deprived community of [Read More]

Ibrahim B. Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2022: The impact of a bad education regime has started haunting this nation. An education regime involves current government policies and practices and the role of education service providers, education authorities and teachers. Let me quickly address a few negative impacts of [Read More]

Alhaji U. N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2022: The reality of cheating and fake educational achievements from primary schools through secondary and colleges today in Sierra Leone is an epidemic that should be declared a national emergency for the survival and prosperity of the nation state. (Photo above: President [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2022: Two days ago, the world observed the International Day of the Girl Child with the theme- “Our time is now – our rights, our future”.  In Freetown, UNICEF organized a panel discussion and conversation with five women and a small [Read More]

Caroline Mwongera: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2022: For most of us, accessing water means turning on a tap. We pay the bill and the water is always there. It is clear, clean and abundant, so we never have to conserve on hydration, handwashing, cleaning, irrigating crops and watering livestock. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 August 2022: In partnership with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi), WHO, UNICEF and other partners, the Federal Government of Nigeria – through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) – has introduced the rotavirus vaccine into the country’s routine immunisation programme. Yesterday’s launch is a [Read More]