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UN Chief Commits to Help End Ebola in Sierra Leone

December 19, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Ban Ki-Moon has reaffirmed the UN’s strong commitment to help the country put the Ebola outbreak under control. He paid glowing tribute to the leadership of President Koroma in the […]

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Ban Ki-moon ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Ebola

December 19, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Top UN official Ban Ki-moon is in West Africa to show solidarity with countries battling Ebola, which has so far killed nearly 7,000 people. The epidemic is also interrupting food […]

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Ebola Kingpin says vaccine will be available in March

December 19, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By  Septimus Kanu The man who is credited for having isolated the EBOLA virus in the middle of the Congo forest in 1976,who is currently the head of London School […]

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Health Minister Returns from Geneva High Level Meeting on Building Resilient Systems for Health in Ebola-Affected Countries

December 19, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Jonathan Abass Kamara (PRO-MOHS) Health and Sanitation Minister, Dr. Abu Bakarr Fofanah has returned home after attending a high-level stakeholders meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland on Building Resilient […]

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Ambassador Amadu Koroma addresses Thirteenth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

December 19, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PERMANENT MISSION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE TO THE UNITED NATIONS 245 East 49th Street, New York NY 10017   STATEMENT by H.E. MR. AMADU KOROMA Deputy Permanent Representative […]

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Ebola Scientist Assures President Koroma

December 19, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By State House Communications Unit The Director of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Professor Peter Piot Thursday 18 December assured government of their support in the fight […]

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OSIWA grants USD$137,918 to the Playhouse Foundation to support Border Chiefdoms in Kono and Kailahun Districts in Tackling the Ebola Virus Disease.

December 18, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has awarded grant funding in the amount of USD$137,918 equivalent to over Seven Hundred and Three Million Leones to the Playhouse Foundation […]

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Sierra Leonean I.T. specialist develops interactive mobile App that provides a way to diagnose and treat Ebola

December 18, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

App Development & Health System Details About the Initiator/Designer   My name is Moses Achi Juana a Sierra Leonean in the United States, son of the Late Hon. Tamba E. […]

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Historic Ebola Summit by Africans in Australia ends

December 18, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Tony Bee, Sydney, Australia Africans in Australia are very disturbed, traumatised and depressed for what is currently taking place in their continent, especially in West Africa. Therefore, to […]

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Sierra Leoneans extol fallen doctor Willoughby

December 18, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

My First Encounter with Dr. Willoughby I met Dr. Victor Willoughby on several occasions at the UNDP Clinic where he worked as the UN Doctor for many years. But I […]

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