Sierra Leone Calls on AU to act now on Ebola

By Abdul Karim Koroma, Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Sierra Leonean born African Union Commissioner for Social Affairs, Dr. Mustapha Kaloko, and Sierra Leone’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union Commission, Ambassador Ismael Koroma have told the African Union that the Ebola situation in West Africa is very critical and needs urgent actions from the Commission.

President Koroma Urges WHO to Intensify Efforts in The Fight Against Ebola

Pres. Koroma @ WHO Ebola Treatment Center in Freetown

President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has paid an unexpected visit to the Ebola Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at the WHO Country Office off King Harman Road, Freetown.

STATEMENT BY THE PARLIAMENTARY LEADERSHIP ON DEMISE OF DR. SHEKU UMAR KHAN

It was with deep shock and dismay that we received the news of the demise of one of the bravest sons of Sierra Leone, Dr. Sheku Umar Khan, a frontline champion in the battle against the deadly Ebola disease.

Sierra Leonean Doctor Volunteers to Help in the Fight against Ebola

By M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia

Volunteering is an altruistic activity in which a person serves the community and helps others without pay. This selfless service can be either in a physical, material or intellectual form.

Address to the Nation on the Ebola Outbreak By His Excellency The President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma July 30, 2014

HE President Ernest Bai Koroma

Today, I ask the entire nation to mourn with the families of our national heroes including Dr. Sheik Humarru Khan who lost their lives battling the Ebola outbreak in our country.

Three Leone Stars players Doubtful For Seychelles Match

By Bockarie Alieu from Kenya

Information gathered from Leone Stars camp in Kenya revealed that three of the invited players for the Leone stars Seychelles match will not feature in the return leg in Victoria.

PRESS RELEASE

IT IS WITH DEEP SADNESS THAT HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA, THE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE THE DEATH OF DR. SHEIK UMAR KHAN, WHO WAS AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE FIGHT AGAINST THE EBOLA DISEASE IN SIERRA LEONE.

Heartlessness of SEA-bola… Sylvia Falsely Accuses the President

Heartless SEA-bola

The embattled and self-destructive Special Executive Assistant to the President (SEA), Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, has plunged herself into further ridicule when she tried to counter a report in The Torchlight about her failure to deliver much-needed equipment solicited by Sierra Leone Nationals in Canada (SALNAM) and handed over to her for the Ministry of Health & Sanitation in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus that has killed scores of Sierra Leoneans and infected hundreds others.

Sierra Leone Cyclist Missing from Games Village

By Mohamed Konneh 

Moses Sesay the Missing Sierra Leonean Cyclist

Cyclists Mohamed Thorley schedule to start his race by the end of the week is missing from the games Village whilst Moses Sesay who had been admitted for the past two days is still not fit to compete.

Ministry of Health and Sanitation Ebola Update July 27, 2014

·         118 patients have survived the disease and have been discharged from the treatment centers in Kenema and Kailahun.

SLAJ sets up Ebola Response Committee

SUNDAYJULY 27, 2014 –The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has set-up anEbola Response Committee to support the national fight against the deadly Ebola virus that has so far claimed the lives of some 165 Sierra Leoneans since the outbreak was confirmed in May this year.

AMBASSADOR SOULAY DARAMY RAPS GAMBIAN FOREIGN MINISTER

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to The Gambia and Guinea Bissau, His Excellency Ambassador Soulayman Daramy, has in a show of diplomacy and professionalism, for which he is good at, called upon the Foreign Minister of The Gambia Hon. Aboubacarr Abdouliah Senghore to acquaint him and his government of the rapid developmental strives and economic growth Sierra Leone is going through and to further discuss on how to strengthen the bilateral ties existing between the two brotherly countries.   

ACC CALLS FOR COLLECTIVE EFFORT TO FIGHT CORRUPTION

The Regional Manager South of the Anti - Corruption Commission (ACC) Mr. Samuel Marah made a clarion call to the staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Bo, to take effective steps to curb corruption in the agricultural sector and the country as whole.

New Ghanaian Envoy Calls on Ambassador Victor Bockarie Foh

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, with accreditation to many other countries in the South-East Asian Pacific, has stated that the role played by Ghana in ensuring Africa’s emancipation from Colonial Rule was  extraordinary.

Sierra Leone boxers out of Commonwealth games

Sierra Leone boxers Mohamed Sillah and Abdul Rashid Bangura are out of the commonwealth boxing contest after they were eliminated in the preliminary rounds.

Stella Grant out of commonwealth games

By Mohamed Konneh

Sierra Leone Table Tennis female player Stella Grant is out of the commonwealth games after losing both matches in the group stage. Stella lost her first match to 17 year-old Emma Ludlow of Northern Ireland and later lost to Annie Yang of New Zealand.

Sierra Leoneans in Saudi Arabia Pray Against EBOLA

By Ibrahim Sillah, Saudi Arabia

Under the supervision of the Embassy of Sierra Leone in Saudi Arabia, the Sierra Leone Nationals' Union (SLNU) in Riyadh, in collaboration with the Dawa and Guidance Committee, made it a point of national duty to converge at the Chancery on all the four Fridays of the holy month of Ramadan.

REMEMBERING DR SHEIK UMAR KHAN - THE CHIEF EBOLA DOCTOR IN SIERRA LEONE

By M C Bah, Atlanta, GA-USA, former NDA Presidential Aspirant

                               

Our nation today mourned the passing of a giant medical crusader - Dr. Sheik Omar Khan who lost the battle he once fearlessly waged against the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

OPINION: THE MAKING OF HEROES!

By Unisa Kanu, Saudi Arabia

POLITICAL events in our post-independence history have clearly shown the birth of an unholy pattern. Whenever there is a systematic disintegration of law and order, and a government comes to change hands, there has always been one benefactor – the main opposition!

SLAJ concerned over escalating trend of Ebola

Sierra Leone Association of Journalists

1^st Floor, 56 Campbell Street, Freetown, Sierra Leone P.M.B. 724,

Website:www.slaj.sl; Email: slaj.salone@gmail.com

President: +232 76 602825, Secretary-General:+232 76 345930

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Date: 23rd July, 2014

WEDNESDAY JULY 23, 2014 – The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) is concerned about the escalating trend of the Ebola virus in the country.

Ebola outbreak update: 23rd July 2014

Ministry of Health and Sanitation

Ebola outbreak update:  As of today, 23rd July 2014, we have 108 cumulative number of survivors, 427 confirmed Ebola cases and 144 Ebola confirmed deaths. 65 patients are currently admitted at the Ebola treatment centers in Kenema and Kailahun.

President Koroma Calls on WHO to Join the Fight against Ebola

By State House Communications Unit

President Ernest Bai Koroma has on Wednesday 23^rd July 2014 called on the World Health Organization (WHO), regional Director for Africa, Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo and his organization to join the fight against the deadly Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

President Koroma Issues Stern Warning on National Tree Planting Day

By State House Communications Unit

President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has planted the first tree on the 2014 National Tree Planting Day. Launching the ceremony on the new Regent-Grafton Road, President Koroma noted that tree planting is integral to the prosperity of the environment that everybody craves for because it is a national imperative that should be commemorated everywhere during the rainy season.