A week-long campaign to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against polio and measles kicks off today, Friday, May 8, in Liberia, led by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and supported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the
Guinea’s opposition has called for renewed protests over the country’s disputed election timetable in a show of defiance after days of deadly clashes between activists and security forces. The coalition of main opposition parties issued a statement late on Saturday saying it was planning “another peaceful march” in Conakry on Thursday followed by a
Sierra Leone marked the 54th anniversary of its independence on Monday by setting out a four-point “post-Ebola plan” to put the devastated country on the road to recovery from the deadly epidemic. Almost 4 000 deaths have been registered since the epidemic spread from Guinea a year ago, although health authorities admit the real toll […]
African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka announced $300 million to support the national Post-Ebola Recovery program of Ebola-affected countries during the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings in Washington. AfDB’s funding will provide support to Governments of Ebola-affected countries by investing in health, education, water and sanitation, agriculture and
The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S, in partnership with the Sierra Leone College of Medicine and Allied Health Services (COMAHS) and the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), is now enrolling and vaccinating volunteers for the Sierra Leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE). This study will assess […]
Sierra Leone’s 1.8 million children prepared on Tuesday to return to school, eight months after classes were shut to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Classrooms have been empty since the government announced a state of emergency in July last year in response to an outbreak which has killed around 10 500 […]
Police in Ebola-hit Sierra-Leone have raided a funeral and arrested 13 people suspected of organising an unsafe burial, officers said. Police superintendent Da Samah said “heavily-armed” police arrived just in time to stop a 50-year-old man being interred on the outskirts of Freetown after they were tipped off about the ceremony. “We stopped the burial
The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, will receive the Platinum Order of Merit of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) today in Cairo. This will be during the 37th Ordinary General Assembly of CAF which officially opened on Monday evening in the presence of the FIFA President Joseph […]
Sierra Leone’s eastern district of Kailahun, once a hotbed of Ebola, has recorded its first case in nearly four months, threatening progress made to stamp out the disease, officials said Saturday. A 9-month-old boy tested positive for Ebola after dying in Kailahun, the district on Guinea’s border that recorded Sierra Leone’s first Ebola case […]
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A National Constitutional Review Conference opened on Monday in the central Liberian city of Gbarnga. A committee charged with reviewing the country’s 1986 constitution has been soliciting suggestions from the public for possible amendments. They include the terms of office for the President, Vice President, legislators and justices, as well as superintendents of the
The authorities in Sierra Leone are enforcing a three-day lockdown to curb the spread of Ebola, with the entire population ordered to stay at home, BBC reports. There is a two-hour exemption on Friday to allow Muslim prayers and a five-hour window for Christians on Sunday. Volunteers are going door-to-door, looking for people with signs […]
Sierra Leone’s opposition party is considering impeachment proceedings against the president and said it will refuse all co-operation with the government since the vice president was fired. The Sierra Leone People’s Party said after an emergency meeting on Saturday that it will also ask the Supreme Court to review Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana’s
Sierra Leone President, Bai Koroma, has ordered a three-day national lockdown in a renewed attempt to stop the spread of the Ebola virus disease. Koroma on Saturday unveiled a campaign called ‘Zero Ebola’, in which almost all Sierra Leoneans are supposed to stay indoors from Friday, March 27 to Sunday, March 29, and from 6am […]
A recent reported released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) reveals that the death toll from the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa has passed 10,000 Liberia has recorded the most deaths with 4,162. Sierra Leone is the second worst-hit nation with 3,655, and Guinea has recorded 2,187 dead, according to the data. The […]
