Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2020: President Julius Maada Bio has today given an account of the successes, challenges and lessons learnt from the three days national lockdown which ended last night, as he encouraged all Sierra Leoneans to help with the increased surveillance at community levels, and for more [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2020: As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sierra Leone this morning rises to 7, and the people of Sierra Leone end their three days State imposed lockdown, the Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki Sawyerr, is under immense pressure from calls for her [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2020: The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa now stands at 10,075, with 487 deaths and 913 recoveries from the virus. The number of cases are growing, though much slowly than was seen in China, Italy and Spain last month. There are concerns [Read More]
Akinwumi A. Adesina: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2020: If we do not collectively defeat the coronavirus in Africa, we will not defeat it anywhere else in the world. These are very difficult days, as the world faces one of its worst challenges ever: the novel coronavirus pandemic. And it [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2020: President Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa, and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) convened a second and follow-up teleconference meeting of the AU Bureau of Heads of State and Government, on 3 April 2020, to discuss the African response to the Covid-19 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2020: A special chartered flight from Brussels last night landed at the Lungi international airport in Freetown, carrying vital medicines and medical supplies valued at $130.000. The cargo weighs about 18 tons and contains critical medical products procured by UNICEF on behalf of the country’s [Read More]
Patricia Scotland: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2020: Public parks have been gated shut, beaches emptied and stadia deserted, as an unprecedented 2.5 billion people across the world are told to sit at home. Times are tough. The Coronavirus is real and as it spreads its tentacles across the globe [Read More]
Sulaiman Stom Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2020: On the 19th March 2020, the Criminal Investigations Department of the Sierra Leone Police, started its investigation into alleged claims that the Former Defense Minister – Paolo Conteh, walked into State House with his gun, to attend a scheduled meeting with [Read More]
Sulaiman Stom Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2020: The streets of Freetown are entirely quiet today, you can barely see people walking around, except for few security personnel, vehicles carrying essential staff, monitoring groups, NGO, INGOs, and ambulances. This Covid 19 lockdown brings memories of 19th – 21st September [Read More]
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