Month: September 2014

Sierra Leonean President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma will skip the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) next week when it convened its Sixty-Ninth Session in New York. The president will again [Read more]

What started few weeks ago as an isolated incident in the forest region of Guinea has now metastasized into a “complex emergency”. Though in the UN we typically reserve this [Read more]

Minstry of Health and Sanination   PRESS RELEASE                                                                            EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES—September 19, 2014   DISCHARGED CASES Total Survived and Released Patients  =  367 NEW CASES New Confirmed cases  [Read more]

Officials in Guinea searching for a team of health workers and journalists who went missing while trying to raise awareness of Ebola have found several bodies. A spokesman for Guinea's [Read more]

Credit where credit is due. The decibel breaking legislators and members of the executive arm of government bellowing their innocence and showing their displeasure at what they perceive as the [Read more]

Fellow Sierra Leoneans Our country is the midst of a big trial. But by the grace of God, we shall overcome this Ebola outbreak. Many of our people have fallen [Read more]

Can the use of basic technology such as television programs, radios and possibly internet access be a useful tool in educating particularly Sierra Leonean children during this Ebola crisis? What [Read more]

Protect Health Workers, Limit Quarantines, Promote Transparency  (Nairobi, September 15, 2014) –West African governments should ensure rights protections as a crucial element in controlling the unprecedented Ebola epidemic ravaging the [Read more]

Canon Jenner Buck, husband of the late Dr Olivette Buck and the Vicar-in-Charge of St Charles Parish Church, Regent has been tested negative of the Ebola Virus, while one of [Read more]

WASHINGTON, September, 16, 2014 – The World Bank Group’s (WBG) Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$105 million grant to finance Ebola-containment efforts underway in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra [Read more]

President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Saturday 13th September urged the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to improve on the response time for the deployment of contact tracers, surveillance officers and [Read more]

Is it me or what? I mean from indications, most of our political leaders are obviously a genre of those who missed the last bus to the real world. It [Read more]

Considering the contagious and mysterious nature of Ebola, I think it`s very early to start ringing any bell about any news, but we shouldn’t relent to thank those who are [Read more]