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]
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]
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