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Study: Delays in Ebola funds could have helped virus spread
The spread of Ebola may been made worse because international donors failed to fully honor their funding pledges, a new study has argued. It says it took half a year […]
Month: February 2015
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Building on the ashes of ebola to bring about a wealthier and more prosperous Sierra Leone
By:- Zainab Tunkara Clarkson* As West Africa starts to see the end of the ebola epidemic, we must initiate a Marshall Plan that will see the beginning of fundamental socio-economic development. […]
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UN : Only 40 percent of Ebola funds reached target countries: study
Almost $2.9 billion was pledged by the end of 2014 in donations to fight West Africa’s Ebola epidemic, yet only around 40 percent had actually reached affected countries, researchers said […]
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Number Of New Ebola Infections Drops To Lowest Level In Months, But Troubling Signs Remain
Ten months after the first cases of Ebola were confirmed in West Africa, the outbreak is showing signs that it may finally be losing steam. For the first time since […]
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Christiana Thorpe coordinates back-to-school High-Level Steering Committee
PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWING THE UNPRECEDENTED OUTBREAK OF THE EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE AND THE SUBSEQUENT DECLARATION OF A STATE OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WERE CLOSED IN […]
COMMENTARY
Information Minister Alpha Kanu wins Humanitarian Award for Ebola fight
By Abubakarr Kamara : The Diaspora Focus in London has given an award to the Minister of Information and Communications Hon. Alpha Sahid Bakar Kanu. Mr. Kanu won the Humanitarian […]
COMMENTARY
Increased food productivity is a prerequisite for post Ebola challenges
By Umaru S. Jah, Information Attaché—Berlin, Germany Dr. Sam Sesay making a point at the GFFA conference Sierra Leone is witnessing a terrible health crisis — the Ebola epidemic—which has […]
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Alhaji Borbor Bah donates 100 bags of rice to Ebola survivors in Kailahun
By Siraju Bah : 100 bags of rice has been donated to affected ebola survivors in the Kaialahun District by Alhaji Borbor Bah, Social Advice to the President and a […]
EDITORIAL
Hats off to President Ernest Koroma and the valiant Government and the people of Sierra Leone, and our international partners, for breaking the back of Ebola
By KABS KANU : LEADERSHIP is all about character and as Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus tell us in their classic, LEADERS, character is a continuously evolving thing. Leadership […]
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Deputy Health Minister Attends Rapid Access to Safe and Effective Medicines of Good Quality Consultative Meeting in Accra, Ghana.
Accra Ghana, Feb 2, 015 (SLENA) – Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation, Madam Madina Rahman and the Registrar Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone, Mr. Wiltshire Johnson are in […]