The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2014 It is almost six months since the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, when it all seemed then, as though the world’s attention would never evaporate, and the UN Chief – Ban Ki Moon expressing horror at the unfolding [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2014 As the race against time in the fight against the Ebola virus in West Africa intensifies, support for the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea keeps pouring in, with the death toll in the region now exceeding 2,000. The UN is calling [Read More]
Michael Fayia Kallon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2014 I don’t know what anyone calls an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), since there is no state governance that would provide a timely and effective response to meet the needs in cases of disaster. We are so lucky so far, because [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2014 The people of Sierra Leone are bracing themselves for the most stringent action yet to be taken by the government, in the battle against Ebola. President Koroma has ordered a complete lockdown of the country for a period of three days. This decision [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2014 After Wednesday’s publication of a media frenzied statement released by State House in Freetown, which is described by the government as a “bonanza for health and non-health personnel”, questions are being asked as to why it has taken four months for the government [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 September 2014 Report from the Sierra Leone Embassy in Beijing says that, the Department of International Cooperation of the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China, has sent eight more personnel of the Chinese African Aid Expert Team, to support Ebola virus control and [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2014 President Obama has spoken directly from his office at the White House to the Ebola suffering people of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, in a manner many would sadly describe, as a condescending lecture about the do’s and don’ts of Ebola. Obama fell [Read More]
Oped by Jim Yong Kim (World Bank Chief) and Paul Farmer (Professor at Harvard University) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2014 If the Ebola epidemic devastating the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone had instead struck Washington, New York or Boston, there is no doubt that the health [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 September 2014 President Koroma’s decision to sack the health minister and have her replaced by her deputy, as well as the reorganisation of the various committees and quangos that are dabbling with the Ebola virus, amid the unfolding tragedy in Sierra Leone, have sparked a [Read More]
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