Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2014 On Thursday, 8 October, Sierra Leone’s minister of health and sanitation – Dr. Abu Bakarr Fofanah (Photo) officially thanked the Cuban government for coming to the aid of Sierra Leone in the fight to contain the Ebola outbreak in the country. Ebola has affected [Read More]
Culled from BBC News Manchester, UK Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2014 A headteacher has blamed “misguided hysteria” about Ebola for the cancellation of a school visit by a nine-year-old boy from Sierra Leone. Kofi Mason-Sesay (Photo) had been due to attend classes this month at St Simon’s Catholic Primary [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 October 2014 Since the first ever recorded case of Ebola in Sierra Leone six months ago, there have been persistent calls for a stop to the under-reporting of the number of people contracting and dying from the virus. But these calls seem to be falling on [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 October 2014 The Special Executive Assistant (SEA) – Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (Photo: Right), appointed by president Koroma in February, 2013 to help steer the ship of the embattled Koroma government through stormy and murky waters, yesterday tendered her resignation in the form of a [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2014 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday, that the economic cost of the Ebola crisis to Sierra Leone for the next two years, could run into hundreds of millions of dollars. The IMF report estimates that for 2014, the total impact of the [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2014 On the 23rd September, the British government published what it calls an ‘international call for assistance to combat ebola from the governments of Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom’. But a day before that publication, the government of Sierra Leone had also signed [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2014 Last week’s UN General Assembly Session in New York, presented perhaps one last great opportunity, for the international community to get a grip on the Ebola crisis, that is now poised to destroying the social and economic fabric of West Africa, if not [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 September 2014 The cost of fighting the deadly Ebola in West Africa could exceed $1 billion, which the three countries in the sub-region whose economies are being savaged by the disease, can ill afford. Average annual GDP growth for the next three consecutive years at [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 September 2014 Yesterday president Koroma addressed the special session of the UN General Assembly on Ebola – live from the offices of the World Bank in Freetown. He called on the international community to do more to help save lives in Sierra Leone. He fell [Read More]
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