The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2014 Gambia Bird Airlines – one of the few airlines flying to Sierra Leone, yesterday announced that it is suspending all flights to Monrovia and Freetown, starting last night – Friday, 15th August 2014, until the 31st August 2014. The company says that the [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2014 Today, Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) painted a very grim picture of the Ebola crisis and its prognosis. It will get worse, before it gets better. “The virus has been vastly underestimated.” The World Health Organisation, MSF and other health agencies working in Sierra [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2014 Unconfirmed reports from Sierra Leone yesterday said that the trade and industry minister – Usu Boie Kamara has died. Still there is no official statement from State House to clarify the story. Sierra Leone is the only country in the world where a [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2014 The family and people of Sierra Leone are today trying to come to terms with the shocking death of Dr. Modupe Cole, one of the country’s top physicians at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown. He contracted the Ebola virus whilst trying to save [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2014 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced it will start using experimental drugs and treatments in West Africa, to help fight the deadly Ebola virus. This news comes as the death toll in West Africa rises above 1,000. The ethics committee of WHO [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2014 Our country is in crisis; it is in agony; it is in anguish; it is in a state of shock and confusion. We are perplexed and near depression. Our country has gone through much, and experienced great tribulation [Read More]
Zainab Tunkara Clarkson 11 August 2014 Despite our plethora of socio-economic woes, Sierra Leone is a rich resource nation blessed with natural endowments which, if well tapped, could enable us overcome the mountain of challenges we face. It does us no good constantly recounting our problems without proffering solutions, as [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2014 Few people would dispute what has been regarded as the inevitability of Ebola crossing the borders of neighbouring Guinea into Sierra Leone. But what cannot be denied is the rapidity and pace with which the virus has spread across Sierra Leone, because [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 August 2014 It is far too soon to begin to count the economic cost of the devastation being wreaked upon Sierra Leone by Ebola, which is expected to run into hundreds of millions of dollars. And no one knows for sure, how long it will [Read More]
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