John Baimba Sesay-China Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 January 2015 2014 was an extremely tumultuous year for Sierra Leone’s development roadmap. This is so, due to the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease, and the unpleasant effects it has brought; from the economic front, to our efforts towards post war reconstruction, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2015 The government of Sierra Leone has announced what it refers to as “additional screening measures” at the Lungi International Airport, after two employees working at the airport are reported to have contracted the virus since December, but had since failed to return to work. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2015 According to the World Health Organization, the number of people infected with the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has now passed 20,000, with the total number dead conservatively estimated at more than 7,800 since March 2014. While scientists and medical experts [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 December 2014 It is the end of the year, and people – all over the world, are today reflecting on what they have done well, where they have gone wrong and how they can improve. And as they look to the New Year with hope of [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2014 It was Chinese philosopher, Confucius who said: “If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will soon find sorrow near at hand.” As 2015 rolls in, it is obvious that Sierra Leone, whose sky is dark right now, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2014 Authorities in the UK have confirmed that a British nurse working in Sierra Leone to help combat the Ebola virus, who returned to Glasgow on Sunday, has been confirmed Ebola positive. Although there are twelve treatment beds set aside at the Kerry Town Ebola [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 December 2014 Amidst the hurly-burly of economic stagnation, social meltdown and ravaging epidemic, you might be forgiven for taking your eyes off the political micro-pampas and ever decreasing altruism in our democracy. Which is why I am breaking off the ‘Diet of Hard [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 December 2014 The Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone has brought out the worst of human character – including the embezzlement of funds meant to feed the sick and the concealing of the infected by relatives. But no one expected a well respected group of university researchers [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2014 Tonight, unconfirmed, though reliable reports from Freetown, say that one of the Koroma government’s most powerful parliamentarians – Osho Williams, who represents Constituency 107 in the capital Freetown, is suspected to have contracted the Ebola virus. Osho Williams is believed to be seriously ill [Read More]
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