Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2014 Ebola is taking a heavy toll on the economies of the three West African nations that are at the centre of the outbreak – Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Tens of billions of dollars are expected to be wiped off the GDP growth forecasts [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2014 Last Saturday president Koroma visited the south of the country to see firsthand, the efforts being made by the districts’ medical teams and local people, in fighting Ebola. But back in the capital Freetown, all was not well. The main topic for discussion on [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 November 2014 Another Sierra Leonean doctor – Godfrey George (Photo), has died of the Ebola virus, after a very short illness. This brings the total number of doctors that have succumbed to the virus in Sierra Leone to five. Since May, 2014, more than 200 health [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 November 2014 After being criticised by sections of Sierra Leone’s media for what they see as the president’s harsh lambasting of chiefs and village heads in the north of the country, he was in Kenema – south of the country yesterday, Saturday. President Koroma met with [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 November 2014 So, Blaise Campaore the powerful dictator and pseudo-democrat of Burkina Faso has been forced out of office. (Photo: Campaore’s despotic reign up in flames – who is next?) I have broken my self-imposed vow of silence. Call it sabbatical [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – Freetown Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 November 2014 Madam Sia Nyama Koroma is First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone. With a solid background in the health sector as a Bio-Chemist, a post graduate degree in Synthetic Organic Chemistry – and at one point heading into [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 October 2014 With thousands of unconfirmed Ebola deaths the government of Sierra Leone is covering up and its continuing ignoble policy of under-reporting new cases, the long awaited British military ship – RFA Argus arrived today in Freetown, carrying aid, supplies and off-road vehicles to take [Read More]
The World Bank Media Centre Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 October 2014 The World Bank Group has today announced an additional $100 million funding in its Ebola crisis response, to speed up deployment of foreign health workers to the three worst-affected countries in West Africa. The announcement increases the World Bank [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2014 Hundreds of Sierra Leoneans living in London were on the streets of the capital today, marching with placards and calling for more to be done to save lives in Sierra Leone, where unofficial estimates put the total number of those killed by the virus [Read More]
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