Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2015 The latest figures released by the ministry of health in Sierra Leone suggests that daily average recorded number of new cases has dropped from about 60 in late December to about 10 in the last two weeks. This is a remarkable drop of more [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2015 When the annals of the Koroma presidency are written after the 2017 elections, what will be remembered most, is the president’s lack of leadership skills and inability to make good and timely decisions. Yet, few will question his loyalty to his foot soldiers and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2015 A new World Bank report says that the Ebola epidemic will continue to cripple the economies of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, even as transmission rates in the three countries show significant signs of slowing. The report estimates that these three countries will lose [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2015 There are unconfirmed reports tonight, that Dr. Kandeh Yumkella (Photo) will soon be stepping down from his UN job, so as to declare his interest in contesting the presidential flagbearership elections of Sierra Leone’s main opposition SLPP party. General and presidential elections are not due [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 January 2015 The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has carried out an emergency simulation exercise at Sierra Leone’s Lungi International Airport. According to the IOM, the aim of the test was to assess and improve the entry and exit health screening process and general health security, [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 January 2015 Since the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease back in May 2014, about 200 Sierra Leonean health workers have succumbed to the virus. Its ferocity on health workers has driven many underground. The government and its development partners – notably the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2015 While the government of Sierra Leone may be planning to scale down its Ebola campaign, as well as looking to declare some of the country’s districts as Ebola free, the number of new cases found along the Freetown-Northern Ebola corridor, remains significantly high. In [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 January 2015 Officials at the ministry of health and sanitation are busy scratching their heads, thinking about how best to explain the huge discrepancy in the total cumulative number of Ebola cases, which the World Health Organisation (WHO) says has reached over 9,700, while the government [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2015 The government of Sierra Leone has announced what it refers to as “additional screening measures” at the Lungi International Airport, after two employees working at the airport are reported to have contracted the virus since December, but had since failed to return to work. [Read More]
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