Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2014 British Overseas Development Secretary – Justine Greening, has today arrived in Sierra Leone along with one hundred soldiers to speed up efforts in setting up treatment centres and make hundreds of beds available for Ebola victims. Today’s arrival is in addition to the 300 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2014 Last Friday’s Ebola restructuring news from State House coincided with depressing reports from Waterloo in the east of the capital Freetown: “Dead bodies are lying all over the place unburied, with the death rate now averaging twenty a day and hundreds of sick people [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2014 As Sierra Leone records its landmark 3,000 Ebola victims, and Liberia clocking up a greater number of confirmed cases, Ebola is far from being controlled. Yet, already the recriminations and finger pointing on the global stage have started, as the number of people [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2014 Ninety-two British military health personnel from the 22 Field Hospital, have arrived at Lungi Airport in Freetown today. They will join the 162 Cuban medical staff and over 50 Chinese military health workers that are already in the country, to carry out the long, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2014 The British government has today announced body temperature screening measures for all flight passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea arriving at British airports. The new measures will start tomorrow at Heathrow Airport, where more than 80% of all passengers from the three most [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2014 The people of Sierra Leone are once again mourning the sad loss of another doctor, bringing the total number of doctors that have lost the fight to Ebola to six, since the start of the virus just six months ago. Dr Jagua (Photo) passed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2014 The three countries worst hit by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa are working on a post-Ebola recovery plan, Sierra Leone Finance Minister Kaifala Marah (Photo) said. Speaking yesterday October 11 at a news conference of the 2014 IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2014 The total number of cumulative confirmed cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone recorded on the 9th October, stood at 2604 (an increase of 100 compared to the reported increase of 88 two days ago). Freetown is now topping all districts and has become the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2014 Serious violence has once again erupted in the western business district of Freetown for a second day running, as okada riders this afternoon confronted armed police officers belonging to the country’s Operational Security Division (OSD), during the funeral of one of their colleagues who [Read More]
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