By Kemo Cham
Mary (not her real name) is in pains. She has just given birth, about a week ago, by caesarean section. Unfortunately she lost the baby. The young nurse`s concern though is less about her baby than her chance of survival.
“I don’t know if I will live longer. I am only surviving by the grace of God,” she says, explaining that after surgery doctors found that her bladder had ruptured and she complains of constant pain from two stitches says were done on her.
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
The outbreak of the Ebola virus disease has had enormous impacts on Sierra Leone’s education. Whether one views the country’s immediate pre-Ebola educational system as a failure or as a success, the outbreak has exacerbated that failure or posed a setback to the success. Nevertheless, education in the country has seen more challenges than successes.
By Zainab Joaque
As sports journalists across the country meet in Bo this weekend to plan the next two years in the life of their association, including electing new executives for both the national and regional chapters of the oldest professional sport reporters' body, Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL), they have no alternative but to put the interest of the association above all personal pre-dispositions.
By Zainab Joaque
The past year has not been a year of sports prowess in our country, for many reasons, but notably due to the Ebola outbreak. Most disciplines were denied the opportunity of participating in international competitions due to the epidemic.
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
If the only reason for the health emergency was to stem the transmission of the Ebola virus, restriction on freedoms of opinions and assembly should have now been lifted.
According to President Ernest Bai Koroma, he proclaimed the “State of Public Emergency to enable us take more robust approach to deal with the Ebola outbreak.”
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
