Feature

By Chris Randall

The Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone is having a far and much wider impact than just the lives that are being lost to it. Following is an article by Chris Randall, a law student from Berkley University, who volunteered with AdvocAid in their office in the eastern district of Kono on how women and girls are struggling to have access to justice made worse by the Ebola outbreak.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

The fight against the riddance of Ebola can only be described as overwhelming. Make no mistake, it cannot be won on sentimental, regional or tribal basis as it seems. It has the potential to unseat any government. It can be God-sent to remove some deification of our leaders and bad governance at many levels. The flood tide is over for now and we are now in an awkward and ebbing time.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

It is palpably clear that many changes have occurred in the teaching profession in 21^st Century Sierra Leone. Long before now, say from the ‘60s right up to the turn of the  millennium, teaching was like any other profession – law, medicine, etc. Being a teacher then required a considerable amount of experience, maturity in age, and technical training.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

It's true. I hope the innuendo is well taken. More than one country has been attacked or stricken by the deadly virus and it could be any one of them that could be bowled out or caught by Leg Before Wicket (LBW).

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

As a journalist, I always expected to go to prison someday. What I never thought about was that it would happen so early in my career. On Friday, August 8, I was on my way to the military court martial at Cockerill in Freetown when a friend, through a text message, pleaded with me to stay away “for your own safety”.

By Sallieu T. Kamara

I was at the Kambui Restaurant in Kenema recently watching one of the football matches of the just-concluded FIFA World Cup held in Brazil when police on patrol bolted me out of the blue.

By Memuna Forna

Ebola’s socio-economic backlash could be as devastating as the disease itself.

When faced with the terrible loss of life and human suffering caused by this Ebola outbreak, it becomes hard to believe that efforts to contain it will eventually succeed.  They will, but even then the battle against it won’t be over.  Its social and economic repercussions have the potential to cause as much damage to Sierra Leone as the disease itself.