Sulaiman Stom Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2020: The streets of Freetown are entirely quiet today, you can barely see people walking around, except for few security personnel, vehicles carrying essential staff, monitoring groups, NGO, INGOs, and ambulances. This Covid 19 lockdown brings memories of 19th – 21st September [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2020: No present-day living organism or specimen may have ever experienced what the world is witnessing these days; thanks to the pandemic Corona Virus. It goes without saying that pandemics are nothing new to the world, as many refer to past occurrences to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2020: Sierra Leone has today recorded another two confirmed cases of the coronavirus, bringing the cumulative total to six. One of the infected is an Italian and the other is a Sierra Leonean. According to reports, both are believed to have been in self-isolation after [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2020: The sudden death is reported of Mrs. Georgiana Adekumbi Jestina Benedict (nee Grant) of 109 Leicester Rd, Freetown, Sierra Leone. She is aged 67 years. She passed away at home yesterday, 4th of April, 2020, after suffering a heart attack. Mrs. Benedict was a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2020: There are now two additional confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sierra Leone today, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to four. Both new cases are believed to be among those quarantined upon arrival at Lungi international airport last month. According to BBC Umaru [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2020: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), yesterday announced the disbursement of $21.13 million to Sierra Leone, after completing its second review of the country’s economic performance, under the program supported by the IMF’s Extended Credit Facility (ECF). This brings the total [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2020: The World Bank today approved a US$7.5 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to help Sierra Leone respond to the threat posed by the Coronavirus outbreak and strengthen national systems for public health preparedness. The funds will fill critical financing gaps that have been [Read More]
Stom Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2020: The streets of Freetown are busy this morning. Everybody is rushing either to go to the banks to withdraw cash, supermarket to buy provisions, bus station to travel or local market for foodstuffs. The prices of food items have risen like a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2020: Mrs. Fatmata Edna Kargbo, who until recently was president Bio’s State Chief of Protocol and Ambassador-at-Large, accused of corruption when she appeared in a video in a church in Nigeria boasting of building a house after taking up public office, has today been exonerated [Read More]
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