Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 July 2015 The battle for the presidential candidacy and leadership of the Sierra Leone’s Peoples’ Party will take a new turn next week, when presidential hopeful and former UN man – Dr. Alhaji Kandeh Yumkella commences his UK wide tour. (Photo: Left – Madam Yumkella [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 July 2015 Novartis, the manufacturer of the malaria treatment drug Coartem, has announced that its Novartis antimalarial medicine Coartem®80 /480mg today received World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification. This makes it the first and only high strength (80/480mg) Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) antimalarial treatment, available for [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2015 In a time where Africans still queue up at the embassies of foreign countries, with the hope of being granted visas into countries with ‘better living conditions’, a rare few like Patrick Awuah (Photo) are sacrificing a life abroad to make a difference at home. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2015 First there was vouchergate. Then came timbergate. Now the poor people of Sierra Leone are facing another possible corruption scandal, with the latest $12 million fiasco, referred to by the Sierra Leone Telegraph as the ‘Busgate’ Chinese procurement affair. The Sierra Leone Telegraph has [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 July 2015 According to Reuters, David Nabarro – the United Nations’ special envoy for Ebola, said today Monday, that the Ebola outbreak in Africa has not yet run its course, with around 30 people being infected a week (exclusively in Sierra Leone and Guinea). “Probably about [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2015 President Koroma’s home coming from what government officials say was a successful Ebola conference in America, was this weekend marred by news of fresh outbreaks of Ebola in Kambia and Freetown. The president was also greeted by a handful of the newly arrived buses, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: Saturday, 11 July 2015 Cecil Bunting McCormack – popularly known as Bunny Mack, has this morning sadly passed away peacefully in London after a short illness. (Photo: Left to right – Bunny Mack, Collins Pratt and King Masco). Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Bunny rose to global [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 July 2015 Since the arrival of the 100 Chinese buses in Freetown on Thursday, which the Koroma government said it had bought for a whopping $12 million, calls for the minister of transport – Balogun Koroma to publish all of the procurement documents, have gone unheeded. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 July 2015 Calls for an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) into the violation of the country’s procurement laws by the minister of transport for the purchasing of 100 buses from China are [Read More]
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