Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2014 Benjamin Franklin s’ famous “Two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner”, aptly describes the realities of our convulsing, blood-soaked Sierra Leone today. Between Ebola and razzmatazz governance, stand the distressed masses. With our leaders obviously [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2014 Today’s report by WHO on the true extent of the Ebola crisis in Kono district, must send shivers down the spine of government officials and health workers in Sierra Leone. There are fears that hundreds of people may have died of the virus in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 December 2014 After several months of intense criticism of their slowness and confused approach in responding to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, WHO are on the offensive. The rapid replacement of the WHO country representatives in Sierra Leone for example, is a serious indictment of [Read More]
Dr. Robert J. Rowen Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2014 I must admit, today’s news of three dead doctors has about broken me for the next few days. Two days ago, one of the young doctors we trained in Sierra Leone emailed me about two new confirmed cases in the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2014 Yesterday Sierra Leone’s parliament reopened for another session. It was a colourful ceremony, held in an atmosphere, marred by the continuing exponential rise in the number of new Ebola cases in the capital Freetown and its neighbouring northern districts. Sierra Leone is in serious [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2014 Tonight a very dark and gloomy shadow falls on Sierra Leone, as worst fears for the safety of the country’s local doctors now emerge, with news of three Sierra Leonean doctors dead. This shocking news is yet to be confirmed by the government, but [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2014 If the intention of the government of Sierra Leone today was to show the World Bank president, how effective its coordinating strategy has been in combating the Ebola virus, then Ebola must have had a different and shocking agenda. As the World Bank chief [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2014 As November’s chapter of the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone closes, so does the gloomy and desperate cycle of infection and transmission of the virus continues, in this the first week of December, with over 6,000 people now officially confirmed as Ebola positive. While [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2014 African Minerals Ltd., the largest single industry contributor to Sierra Leone’s GDP and the country’s largest employer, is tonight facing an ever increasingly uncertain future. The company is in a state of financial collapse, despite unconfirmed overtures that Tony Blair is helping the government [Read More]
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