Education and Health

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2022: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Dr. Memunatu Pratt and World Monuments Fund (WMF) yesterday announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for a preservation project to save Old Fourah Bay College in the Cline Town district of Freetown, Sierra Leone, funded [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 February 2022 Merck Foundation has launched its annual “MARS Best African Woman Researcher Awards” to acknowledge women in science. Merck Foundation works closely with African policy makers to empower girls in education and women in STEM. Senator, Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation, Most Influential [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2022: The African Development Bank (AfDB), the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa and their partners in the Harmonization for Health in Africa Initiative have published A Practical Guide to Value for Money in the Health Sector in Africa. Global public health is increasingly [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2022: This year’s expansion of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is dramatically improving access to treatment for Sierra Leoneans living with HIV, with 22% more Sierra Leoneans with HIV in treatment, and support for 15 new facilities across four districts. U.S. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 February 2022: The United States government, through the Agency for International Development (USAID), has supported the Government of Sierra Leone by providing medicines to entire communities through campaigns every year to eliminate several neglected tropical diseases. Twelve districts in Sierra Leone have successfully reduced transmission of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 February 2022: Tomorrow, 4th of  February, the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) will launch a new three-year campaign for World Cancer Day that brings together individuals, organisations and governments around the world in an effort to create awareness and help close the gap in cancer care. The [Read More]

FII Institute: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 February 2022: Health has become the world’s top priority. From the pandemic’s start to today’s Omicron variant, COVID-19’s impact on our planet has been unprecedented, with millions dying from catastrophic social and economic devastation. Healthcare is one of the four main priorities of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2022: Melvina Malaika Nicol -Wilson – a dual Sierra Leonean and Namibian citizen and student from the top-rated St George’s Diocesan school in Windhoek, Namibia, Southern Africa, has achieved a record-breaking set of results in the Cambridge IGCSE International Assessment Education examinations conducted in November [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2022: Following last week’s announcement by the UK government that Covid PCR tests are no longer required for people coming into the country, there are reports of passengers travelling from Freetown to the UK being asked to pay for PCR test by rogue officials in [Read More]