By Kemo Cham
The UN children's agency,Unicef, hassaid that the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is more widespread than has been reported, according to a recent report.
The report said millions more girls and women worldwide were victims of the widely criticized practice than initial estimates indicated.
It stated that at least 200 million girls and women alive today had undergone cutting, as FGM is also called.
By Kemo Cham
The media’s coverage of the Ebola epidemic revealed the need for guidelines for the reportage of emergencies, Sierra Leone’s Independent Media Commission (IMC) has said.
By Kemo Cham
The Sierra Leone government has set in motion a plan to establish a post graduate medical school in response to a dire need for specialist medical training.
One of the plundered graves at Ascension Town cemetery
By Umaru Fofana
If you think human corpses have nothing on them to steal then think again, because it seems Freetown’s dead won’t be allowed to rest in peace and quiet.
By Umaru Fofana
The last known Ebola patient in Sierra Leone has been discharged from the 34 Military Hospital in Freetown.
38-year-old Memunatu Kalokoh was infected by her niece, Mariatu Jalloh who died in Magburaka on 12 January after returning from Barmoi Luma in Kambia District, northern Sierra Leone.
Archbishop Tamba Charles in a fiery mood
By Mabinty Kamara
Archbishop Tamba Charles turning the sod
The Catholic Archbishop of Freetown has symbolically laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Saint Thomas Aquinas Church at Fourah Bay College, FBC, near Kortright, just off the college campus.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
