Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 April 2020: Sierra Leone’s minister of health – Dr Alpha Wurie has in the last hour confirmed on national TV that a second person has been infected with the coronavirus, but not connected to the index case announced by president Bio yesterday. This second person has [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 April 2020: Sierra Leone scored two firsts yesterday, with the president announcing the country’s confirmation of its first COVID-19 victim, and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) announcing that it has charged a senior minister in the Bio-led government to court for the missing 49,000 bags of rice [Read More]
Anthony Kamara Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2020: The numbers coming in from around the world are daunting. Reading the news is frightening. Even worse, are the disturbing pictures we see on TV about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic around the world. As the world careens into another [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2020: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation today launches its report on COVID-19 in Africa, calling for coordinated governance, improved health structures and better data to mitigate this crisis. In the publication, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation analyses Africa’s readiness and capacity to manage this pandemic. It draws on [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2020: President Bio this afternoon made a sombre, though reassuringly confident announcement about Sierra Leone’s first coronavirus case. He is a 37 years old Sierra Leonean who travelled from France on a Brussels airline arriving at Lungi airport just over two weeks ago. But there [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2020: President Julius Maada Bio has in the last few minutes announced in a national broadcast that the coronavirus has breached the borders of Sierra Leone. The president said that the carrier of the virus – a 37 year old male, arrived in the country [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay: 31 March 2020: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) commends the decision of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education to lift the ban on pregnant girls attending school. “As co-chair of the Sexual Reproductive Health Taskforce, established in December 2019, I personally applaud the Minister [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 March 2020: Former defence minister and also internal affairs minister in the former APC government of Ernest Bai Koroma – retired major Paolo Conteh, has this afternoon appeared at the Magistrate Court in Freetown, charged with sixteen counts of treason. Conteh was arrested on 19th March [Read More]
Bilal Coleman: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 March 2020: Sierra Leone may not have registered a single case of the coronavirus, but the global shock engendered by the virus has triggered a financial crisis that is reverberating in the country. It appears that the financial shock wave is running ahead of [Read More]
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