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The everyday health realities COVID-19 has eclipsed in Sierra Leone

By Makalay Saidiatu Sonda                                              

“This is a failed resuscitation attempt tonight to save a new-born whose mother had had an obstructed labour at the Mosongo Health Care Centre in Njala for over two hours. We did not have the paediatric resuscitation tools, not even oxygen for a successful resuscitation. The mother survived… It was a joint effort of staff at the health centre and Njala University Hospital…”  

Fare thee well, Dr. Minkailu Bah!

By Ibrahim Jalloh (Jallomy)
The tragic news came in disbelief : Dr. Minkailu Bah passed on in the early hours of Monday, May 18, 2020. As the morning grew old, it became a confirmed reality that the man who served Sierra Leone as Minister of Education for almost 11 years was no more - totally consumed by death.

Trapped in my kitchen during a raging Freetown storm

By Mary Morgan

I couldn't batter down the door, I couldn't jump out the window, I couldn't phone anyone for help and no one was hearing my cries. There’s nothing like a real lock-in situation to put the current restrictions in perspective.

Here's the long version:

Sierra Leone: A strange thing happened on Monday

Some of you will notice in this edition that we have republished some of our stories and articles from our Monday 18 May edition.

We had to do this after realizing that only a few copies of that edition reached our target audience.

Feedback from the market and our general readership indicated that some unscrupulous individual or group of individuals went out of their way to ensure that the edition didn’t reach the public for reasons best known to them.

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