In Sierra Leone, loving in the time of Ebola
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — It has been four months since Messia Dukuray has had any physical contact with her husband. They don’t sleep in the same bed, hug or even share food. Her husband is a surgeon...
View ArticleWest Africa’s fight to contain Ebola has hampered the campaign against malaria
Freetown – West Africa’s fight to contain Ebola has hampered the campaign against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that is claiming many thousands more lives than the dreaded virus. In...
View ArticleWill 2015 be the year Ebola is eradicated?
The epidemic has been a shocking wake-up call to the world. Minds and money are now concentrated on clearing Ebola from west Africa. Could Ebola, the global health disaster of this year, be cleared...
View ArticleSeven Sierra Leonean Referees Get FIFA 2015 Approval
(SLFA-Sierra Leone)-Three (3) referees and four (4) assistants from Sierra Leone have been accepted by the World governing body (FIFA) to be part of the 2015 FIFA Referees list, which means, they are...
View ArticleHow Ebola had tainted the culture of Sierra Leone
By:-Stephen Douglas* Bearing Witness: 2014 — The Globe and Mail looks back on the cataclysmic news events of 2014 through the eyes of the people who were there – be they bystanders, participants or...
View ArticleBritish mining companies’ exploitation in Sierra Leone
(One.org):-Our guest blogger today is Bella Mosselmans, an undergraduate student at the London School of Economics. Last summer, she spent 3 months in Sierra Leone working for Restless Development....
View ArticleGambia President Jammeh addresses nation from France
There is confusion surrounding the current location of President Jammeh. Official statement suggests he was on state visit to France while unconfirmed reports suggest he was visiting Mauritania...
View ArticlePresident Jammeh of The Gambia arrives In Banjul
Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has arrived in Banjul early Wednesday morning, after security forces thwarted an attempted coup against his regime. President Jammeh of The Gambia (File photo Mr...
View ArticleNew Year’s Day Broadcast by President Koroma of Sierra Leone
New Year’s Day Broadcast by His Excellency President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma Fellow Sierra Leoneans The New Year is a moment for resolutions, andtoday I call on all Sierra Leoneans to strengthen our...
View ArticleIs President Koroma becoming a liability to Sierra Leone’s ability to fight...
By: Jesmed F Suma. (A Concerned Citizen) Ebola has become the enigma of the world. The virility of this unique strain of Ebola is definitely very unlike other outbreaks in the past. We all agree that...
View ArticleThe Premiership so far…..Season of Good Will
It’s that time of the year; the season of good will, and on earth peace to all men. We are literally half way into the Premier League season and things seem to be taking shape with the usual suspects....
View ArticleAn Enigma Or A Legend: Elvis Has Left The Building.
By:- Abdulai Mansaray When Steven Gerrard called time on his Liverpool career a few days ago, a lot of conjectures sprung up, ranging from the realistic, the romantic, and the sentimentalist, down to...
View ArticleBritish Rule 2.0: Recolonize Sierra Leone in the 21st Century – Part One (A....
By:- Alpha Omar Jabbie (Concerned Sierra Leonean) As we usher in the year 2015 and as the Ebola crisis and other pertinent issues continue to plague my beloved birth country, Sierra Leone, I have...
View ArticleSierra Leone:- Proposed Ebola back to school Action Plan.
Submitted to: THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRALEONE & THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IN SIERRALEONE Prepared by: RASHID JUSTICE DUMBUYA* DEDICATION This work is dedicated to all the heroic...
View ArticleGuidelines for a New National Education Policy for Sierra Leone.
By:- Jesmed F. Suma Dear Fellow Sierra Leoneans, Our beloved country Sierra Leone, struck by long periods of political mis-rule, a decade long war and an 18 month long Ebola Virus Disease epidemic; is...
View ArticleSierra Leone Dial Ambulance From Monrovia to fight Ebola
As three countries in West Africa fight to kick Ebola out of their respective countries Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea with Liberia topping the death list of this deadly virus, one of Liberia’s fast...
View ArticleSierra Leone:- For months sitting idle, doing nothing, with damaged...
Four months sitting idle and doing nothing while Ebola hit neighboring countries has caused irreparable damage to the Sierra Leone economy and Sierra Leoneans better be ware who to rule them come...
View ArticleSierra Leone Amputee Police Officers in Action
By: Martin Davies After a campaign of terror in the 1990s, in which civilians had their limbs cut off by rebels, Sierra Leone has thousands of disabled people. They are generally marginalised by the...
View ArticleSierra Leone:- Rokel Commercial bank sails on stormy waters
On the 31st December 2014 the Governor of the Central Bank Momodu L. Kargbo issued a press release quoting sec 36 of the Bank of Sierra Leone Act of 2011 which provides that “the Bank shall be...
View ArticleWhat are the side-effects of the current ANTI-MALARIA DRUG alleged to be...
What are the side-effects of the current ANTI-MALARIA DRUG (Artesunate Amodiaquine Winthrop® 100mg/270mg tablets) alleged to be responsible for several deaths in Sierra Leone? Artesunate Amodiaquine...
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