Sheriff Mahmud Ismail Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 January 2015 The Ebola virus causes a very painful disease. It usually starts with headache, as the patient’s condition deteriorates. Pain engulfs the body, muscle ache, fatigue and loss of appetite set in. Diarrhoea and vomiting then follows, causing hunger and dehydration. Weakened [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 January 2015 Anyone reading some of the most disturbing news coming out of State House in Sierra Leone in 2012, could have easily predicted that the country was heading for a major national catastrophe. And indeed, Sierra Leone is now facing an unprecedented threat to its [Read More]
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 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]
Reflections of an eyewitness Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2014 “Operation Octopus”, “Operation Barras”, “Operation Final Push”. These were some of the code names for specific military assaults against the Revolutionary United Front during Sierra Leone’s civil war. Not to be undone in ‘operational expressions’, the rebels also declared their [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2014 Sierra Leone’s top physician – Dr. Victor R. Willoughby, this morning succumbed to the deadly Ebola virus, just four days after he was officially pronounced Ebola positive by the country’s chief medical officer – Dr. Brima Kargbo. (Photo of Dr. Willoughby, taken just days [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2014 Benjamin Franklin s’ famous “Two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner”, aptly describes the realities of our convulsing, blood-soaked Sierra Leone today. Between Ebola and razzmatazz governance, stand the distressed masses. With our leaders obviously [Read More]
Dr. Robert J. Rowen Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2014 I must admit, today’s news of three dead doctors has about broken me for the next few days. Two days ago, one of the young doctors we trained in Sierra Leone emailed me about two new confirmed cases in the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2014 Tonight a very dark and gloomy shadow falls on Sierra Leone, as worst fears for the safety of the country’s local doctors now emerge, with news of three Sierra Leonean doctors dead. This shocking news is yet to be confirmed by the government, but [Read More]
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