Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2014 British Overseas Development Secretary – Justine Greening, has today arrived in Sierra Leone along with one hundred soldiers to speed up efforts in setting up treatment centres and make hundreds of beds available for Ebola victims. Today’s arrival is in addition to the 300 [Read More]
Noorudin Kaikai Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 October 2014 The Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone would have been a great script for a television series – aptly named a “Comedy of Errors”, had the situation not been so serious. What is certain is that this government of Ernest Bai Koroma, has [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2014 Last Friday’s Ebola restructuring news from State House coincided with depressing reports from Waterloo in the east of the capital Freetown: “Dead bodies are lying all over the place unburied, with the death rate now averaging twenty a day and hundreds of sick people [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2014 As Sierra Leone records its landmark 3,000 Ebola victims, and Liberia clocking up a greater number of confirmed cases, Ebola is far from being controlled. Yet, already the recriminations and finger pointing on the global stage have started, as the number of people [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2014 Ninety-two British military health personnel from the 22 Field Hospital, have arrived at Lungi Airport in Freetown today. They will join the 162 Cuban medical staff and over 50 Chinese military health workers that are already in the country, to carry out the long, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2014 One of the unexpected consequences – though positive phenomenon of the Ebola outbreak that is now ravaging every facet of life in Sierra Leone, is that it has opened up a new window into the very soul of the less than ten percent of [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2014 Just the other day, I had rushed down town, Central Beijing (Yashow) for some sunglasses, when I met this Dutch businessman, himself searching for the same. Pleasantries were exchanged, given the friendly nature of the typical Sierra Leonean, always [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2014 The British government has today announced body temperature screening measures for all flight passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea arriving at British airports. The new measures will start tomorrow at Heathrow Airport, where more than 80% of all passengers from the three most [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2014 The people of Sierra Leone are once again mourning the sad loss of another doctor, bringing the total number of doctors that have lost the fight to Ebola to six, since the start of the virus just six months ago. Dr Jagua (Photo) passed [Read More]
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