Education and Health

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2021: The British government has today announced that on Monday 19th July, 4am, Sierra Leone will join a long list of countries with very high prevalence of Covid infections, from which travellers are banned from entering England. This means that if you are entering England [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 July 2021: President Macky Sall of Senegal, said yesterday that he welcome the support of Team Europe and other partners, including the United States and the World Bank Group, for their support in constructing a manufacturing plant in Senegal to produce vaccines against COVID-19 and other [Read More]

Dr. Marcella Ryan-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 July 2021: This post is just a long rant about why I am so frustrated with the absence of systems in the Sierra Leone health sector. No, this is not political! I am just outraged. Also, before you come for me and start [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2021: Sierra Leone’s agency responsible for managing the government’s Covid programme – NACOVERC, yesterday reported that 1,003 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded between 25th of May 2021 to 24th June 2021, with an increase of 8 deaths during that period, from 79 to 87, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2021: The African Finance Ministers and the World Bank Group met on Monday, 21st June 2021 to fast track vaccine acquisition on the African continent so as to avoid a third wave. In a boost to the African Union’s target to vaccinate 60% of the continent’s [Read More]

Aids Healthcare Foundation: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2021: Like pirates on high seas, developed nations are curtailing essential supply of COVID-19 vaccines to African nations; with the continent receiving less than 2% of the total 773 million worldwide-administered doses of COVID-19 vaccines. A recent report published in the British [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 June 2021: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is supporting Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation to develop a five-year National Health Supply Chain Strategic Plan that will map out a broader view of the current state of the country’s health supply chain, the strategic [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2021: Sierra Leone has recorded 269 new cases of Covid-19 infections in the last five days. Yesterday Saturday 19th June 2021, seventy-one new cases of Covid-19 infections were recorded in the country, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 4,702. Last Monday, 14th June [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 June 2021: Merck Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, announces the winners of Merck Foundation More Than a Mother FASHION AWARDS 2020 from Ghana, Namibia and Zambia. The awards are by Merck Foundation in partnership with the First Lady of Ghana, H.E. Mrs. [Read More]