Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been significantly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and is forecast to fall sharply from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020, the first recession in the region over the past 25 years, according to the latest [Read More]
Patricia Scotland (Commonwealth Secretary-General): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: Today there is an eerie silence across the globe. Bustling cities have gone quiet and highways that were once jammed with bumper to bumper traffic, are empty. In homes, thousands of families are anxiously awaiting a phone call from a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: BBC Africa is today launching its Covid-19 Have Your Say Programme – a two-week marathon by Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin and Yoruba services on how to prepare for Coronavirus. Each service will showcase a Facebook live programme where the commissioners of health in key states [Read More]
Kandeh Yumkella MP: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: With all due respect to all of us in this noble House, who are all in this forum, a string of press releases from State House, various ministries, departments and the police do not constitute “regulations” for a State of Public Emergency [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 April 2020: President Bio has today issued a new directive, ordering the restriction of people movement between districts with effect from midnight Saturday, 11th April 2020, for a period of fourteen days. Although this is not a national lockdown, the restrictions exempt the transportation of goods [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2020: The High Court of Sierra Leone, sitting in Freetown and presided over by Justice Miatta Samba, yesterday convicted the former Managing Director of Sierra Leone Cable Network (SALCAB) – Mohamed Sheriff, and Paul Sandi – the former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Information [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2020: It is regrettable but unfortunately true that Africa seems to be a synonym for a lot of life’s undesirables. The continent has been described along the lines of diseases, poverty, war, famine, corruption, etc. From time immoral, right down to the colonial [Read More]
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]
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