The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 September 2014 Latest reports from Freetown on the progress of the three day military style lockdown in Sierra Leone, are expressing mixed feelings about its benefits and achievements, after just two days. (Photo: Suspected Ebola victim found on first day of lockdown). Although there are [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 September 2014 Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, will not be attending the Sixty-Ninth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which takes place next week in New York. Due to the Ebola crisis, the president will once again be absent from [Read More]
Kandeh K. Yumkella – United Nations Under-Secretary-General The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2014 What started few weeks ago as an isolated incident in the forest region of Guinea has now metastasized into a “complex emergency”. Though in the UN we typically reserve this term for countries or regions with [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2014 A spokesman for the First Lady’s office in Freetown, today told the Sierra Leone Telegraph that the First Lady – Mrs. Sia Koroma, would like to clarify any misunderstanding construed from her pre-lockdown Ebola video recorded message, published in the Sierra Leone Telegraph. [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2014 Give credit where credit is due – the decibel breaking legislators and members of the executive arm of government bellowing their innocence and showing their displeasure at what they perceive as the media’s intransigence in a democratic setting, are displaying [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 September 2014 All six million people in the West African state of Sierra Leone are tonight ordered by command of president Koroma to remain behind closed doors, for three long nights and days, after six months of agony, fear and uncertainty over a deadly Ebola [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2014 Few in Sierra Leone would ever have imagined that in this, the nation’s moment of terror and grief, waged by a deadly virus that is ravaging their lives, those occupying the seat of power will today publicly announce that the Ebola affliction is [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2014 Is it me or what? I mean from indications, most of our political leaders are obviously a genre of those who missed the last bus to the real world. It shows, not only in their crass utterances but also in the [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2014 There was pandemonium in the central district of the capital Freetown this evening, when a madman fully dressed in a brightly coloured Ebola protective wear and goggles ran amok, sending market women and shoppers running for their lives. Freetown is tense, and all [Read More]
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