Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2020: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday announced that Sierra Leone is among a group of 25 poorest countries in the World to receive IMF loan repayment suspension for the next six months, to enable these countries respond to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. This decision [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: The government has today published its latest update on the country’s coronavirus management status, and the report makes for welcoming reading, as Sierra Leone continues to fight the spread of the virus through aggressive contact tracing and isolation. So far, the total number of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: Africans living in China are facing appalling discrimination and violation of human rights as China tightens the screws, in its effort to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country. But the Chinese are now experiencing huge condemnation from citizens across the [Read More]
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]
SLAJ: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) is deply concerned about the inhumane treatment of journalist Fayia Amara Fayia, in the hands of some personnel of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), and the Kenema District [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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2020: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sierra Leone now stands at 10, following the discovery of two new cases today. Yesterday’s 8th case is believed to be a South African lady who has been in quarantine. Yesterday, neighbouring Guinea recorded 18 new cases, [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]
Abdulai Mansaray: 11 April 2020: In a WhatsApp message, purported to have been written by Dr Sylvia Blyden, (Not verified), she appears to praise President Maada Bio “for many aspects of this fight against the outbreak of the Covid-19 in Sierra Leone”. She praises the government’s “proactiveness, farsightedness and alacrity” [Read More]
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