Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2014 Having thrown everything at Ebola – including the kitchen sink, president Koroma was yesterday described by pro-government media as “looking very tired and losing his pop idol looks”. But a real commander in chief is never ruffled by the enemy, let alone worried about [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2014 I submitted recently that, the stigma attached to the Ebola Virus Disease is an enemy within that will take months or years to overcome. I argued that until, particularly the western media can see the need to also [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2014 ‘Sierra Leone’s new Ebola Czar and chief executive of the country’s National Ebola Response Centre – Major Palo Conteh (Photo) is being groomed to take over the running of the country, with threats of the economy and community life collapsing under the weight of [Read More]
Ismail Mahmud Sheriff Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2014 The World Bank and partners are providing funding, logistics and technical support to the three most affected countries. Yet, new infections are doubling, and more people are dying. The problem is that, “we have still not been able to break the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2014 As the number of Ebola cases in Sierra Leone is poised to exceed 10,000 by the beginning of next year, there is growing fear that the yet to be constructed holding and treatment centres will be swamped. Sierra Leone currently has about 300 Ebola [Read More]
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]
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