Culled from BBC News Manchester, UK Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2014 A headteacher has blamed “misguided hysteria” about Ebola for the cancellation of a school visit by a nine-year-old boy from Sierra Leone. Kofi Mason-Sesay (Photo) had been due to attend classes this month at St Simon’s Catholic Primary [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2014 Today’s sad death of Eric Duncan (Photo) – the first person to die of Ebola in the USA, who fell ill after arriving from Liberia a few weeks ago, appears to have brought a sharp turning point in the response of the USA and [Read More]
Ismail Mahmud Sheriff Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2014 “I contracted Ebola because of love; I was caring for my mother and father who have now died of the disease”. Fatmata Kamara, 30, wept uncontrollably as she recounted her traumatic ordeal. Fatmata was giving the vote of thanks at an official [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 October 2014 Since the first ever recorded case of Ebola in Sierra Leone six months ago, there have been persistent calls for a stop to the under-reporting of the number of people contracting and dying from the virus. But these calls seem to be falling on [Read More]
Farouk Martins Aresa Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2014 Alarm at the first diagnosis of Ebola in the USA, raises more ethical questions about who gets experimental drugs, and where to dispense limited supply in case anything goes wrong. There are histories of humans used as guinea pigs in the [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2014 Liberia may have witnessed the worst of the West African Ebola outbreak, but the rate of transmission and deaths from the virus in Sierra Leone is rising alarmingly, above recorded figures in Liberia. More than 100 new and unconfirmed cases are being reported [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 October 2014 The Special Executive Assistant (SEA) – Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (Photo: Right), appointed by president Koroma in February, 2013 to help steer the ship of the embattled Koroma government through stormy and murky waters, yesterday tendered her resignation in the form of a [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2014 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday, that the economic cost of the Ebola crisis to Sierra Leone for the next two years, could run into hundreds of millions of dollars. The IMF report estimates that for 2014, the total impact of the [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2014 On the 23rd September, the British government published what it calls an ‘international call for assistance to combat ebola from the governments of Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom’. But a day before that publication, the government of Sierra Leone had also signed [Read More]
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