Bad news continues to come from President Koroma’s hometown of Makeni where over a hundred health workers went on strike over non-payment of allowances and abandoned over two dozen pregnant women, leaving them unattended. The latest reports from Makeni today are grim as Ebola is said to have attacked the Medical Unit & nbsp. Three …
60 new infected persons registered today in Sierra Leone; 29 from Freetown and its environs. Kabala in the Koinadugu district recorded its first case today and several people have been quarantined in their homes due to the new infection case in the area. Reports from the president’s hometown of Makeni say over two dozen pregnant …
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(December 1-25) 1st Dec. = 72 cases 2nd Dec. = 61 cases 3rd Dec. = 93 cases 4th Dec. = 69 cases 5th Dec. = 37 cases 6th Dec. = 54 cases 7th Dec. = 25 cases 8th Dec. = 58 cases 9th Dec.= 45 cases 10th Dec= 37 cases 11th Dec. = 40 cases …
More than 120 health workers at Magbenteh, one of the main hospitals in President Koroma’s hometown of Makeni have left more than two dozen pregnant women unattended. The health workers said they have gone on strike because their Ebola risk allowances have not been paid. They said 10 of their colleagues including a midwife have …
We want you to remember the following as you celebrate Christmass and New Year with your family: WHO says 30,000 children have been orphaned by Ebola in Sierra Leone. 2,000 Ebola orphans in Port Loko district alone. 5 million children out of school, majority from Sierra Leone. Some of these kids may never go back …
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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone has disclosed that it has opened an investigation against a former Tourism Minister, Peter Bayuku Conteh. Conteh resigned from office a few days ago for health reasons, according to officials in the president’s office who read the notice of his resignation to the president. But the ACC’s Deputy …
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By: Chernoh Alpha M. Bah December 24, 2014 Today is Christmas Eve and I am still in Guinea. I arrived in Conakry by road from Freetown on Friday night and have been here for nearly a week now, trying to find out what is happening here with the Ebola outbreak. I have not heard a …
By: Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Dec. 22, 2014 I am currently in Guinea, where the first case of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was reportedly recorded. I arrived here on Friday night traveling by road from Freetown to Conakry. It is my first trip into the provinces of Sierra Leone since the end of …
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Sierra Leone has recorded 55 new infections today on Christmas eve, according to official reports. 42 of today’s infections are from the Freetown area. A national lockdown is in force today in Sierra Leone as part of measures by the president to prevent public celebrations of Christmas and New Year. Prices of basic commodities went …
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Ebola crisis is likely to last until the end of 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. A scientist who is credited to have discovered the virus in the 1970s is quoted to have said that preparations must be made for a long fight against the epidemic. Peter Piot told the BBC today that …
