Cardibal Turkson
One of the most influential members of the Vatican, Cardinal Peter Turkson will arrive in Sierra Leone today on a two-day visit before proceeding to Liberia on Saturday 18 December in solidarity with countries hardest hit by Ebola.
Sierra Leone drops on Global Media Index
A prominent media lawyer says Sierra Leone's position on the World Press Freedom Index over the last two years “under-represents” the image of “a country which had set the pace for others in the West African sub-region.”
According to the index, the country, ranked 61 out of 180 countries in 2013, dropped 11 places to 72 out of 180 in 2014.
Plan supports Ebola Victims in Bombali
By Mildred Christiana Saccoh in Makeni
Plan Sierra Leone, with support from the British Department for International Development (DfID) and Irish Aid, has donated food and non-food items to the hot spot areas in the Makarie Gbanti Chiefdom in Bombali District.
The items included bags of rice, replacement package for Ebola survivors, pure water, cooking condiments, palm oil, drinking buckets, home utensils and disinfectants.
Sierra Leone blockades new Ebola hotspot
Palo Conteh, Sierra Leone Ebola chief
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
UN Secretary General visits Ebola-hit countries next week
Ban Ki-Moon
With no letup in the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone, United Nations Secretary General is scheduled to visit the country on or around the 19 December, according to impeccable sources at the UN headquarters in New York.
Sierra Leone doctors still on strike
Junior doctors met yesterday and decided to go on with their stay-away-from-hospital strike action contrary to the minister of information, Alpha Kanu saying the whole matter had been resolved and that the doctors had returned to work.
President of the Junior Doctors’ Association, Dr Jeredine George, told Politico her members resolved to continue with their action while talks were ongoing with ministry of health officials to try to resolve the logjam.
