Tag: Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone plans three-day shutdown to stall Ebola
Sierra Leone is to enforce three days of “complete shutdown” across the country later this month in a bid to…
Sierra Leone aggrieved by Ebola outcast status
Sierra Leone’s footballers are motivated by a sense of betrayal by fellow Africans over the Ebola virus that has led…
Researchers trace Ebola outbreak to funeral in Sierra Leone
Researches at Harvard University, USA on Friday linked the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone to the…
US health worker home after ‘low-risk’ Ebola exposure
A health worker with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has returned to the United States after possible…
WHO staffer with Ebola taken to Germany for treatment
A World Health Organization (WHO) employee who has contracted Ebola arrived in Germany Wednesday, the first patient with the virus…
Ebola: BA stops flights to Liberia, Sierra Leone until 2015
British Airways extended to 2015 its suspension of flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone due to concerns about the spread…
UN warns of food crisis in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone
The United Nations warned Tuesday of a looming food crisis in eastern Sierra Leone, under lockdown since the Ebola-hit west…
Briton with Ebola flown home from Sierra Leone
A British healthcare worker who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone is being flown back to London for treatment,…
Liberian Police Fire Tear Gas To Disperse Ebola Protesters
Police in the Liberian capital Monrovia fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd agitating to leave a…
Suffering and smiling in Sierra Leone’s Ebola ‘hot zone’
Virologists call it the “hot zone” — nature’s version of a nuclear ground zero, the centre of an onslaught by…
Scotland tests Sierra Leonean for Ebola
A woman who fell ill at a deportation facility in Scotland has tested negative for the Ebola virus, health officials…
UN to feed up to one million people hit by Ebola
The United Nations is to fly in food aid for up to a million people affected by the Ebola outbreak…
Sierra Leone seeks experimental Ebola drug
Sierra Leone said on Tuesday it would seek a shipment of a controversial experimental drug to fight an Ebola outbreak…
Worshipers Fill Churches To Pray Against Ebola
Cyriacus Izuekwe, Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta with Agency Report People in Sierra Leone and Liberia filled churches on Sunday to seek deliverance…
UEFA Champ League: Arsenal Face Besiktas
English Premiership side, Arsenal will play Turkish side Besiktas in the Champions League play-off round, while Celtic, who have Super…
Ebola: Liberia appeals to Nigeria to protect its citizens
The Liberian Government has appealed to Nigerian authorities to protect Liberian citizens in the country from “stereotyping and harassment” in…
Adeboye Bans Delegates From Ebola-Hit Countries
Kazeem Ugbodaga The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has banned delegates from…
Ebola Virus Lands In Saudi Arabia, Nigerian Pilgrims Face Ban
Saudi Arabia is testing a man for suspected Ebola infection after he returned recently from a business trip to Sierra…
The Threat Of Ebola Disease
The Ebola epidemic, which has killed over 600 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, has become a regional…
Head doctor at S. Leone Ebola clinic dies of virus
A doctor in charge of an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone has become another victim of the deadly virus,…
Arik to suspend flights to Liberia, Sierra Leone over Ebola virus
Arik Air on Sunday said it would suspend flight operations to Monrovia in Liberia and Freetown in Sierra-Leone on Monday…
Charles Taylor pleads to serve jail term in Rwanda
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says his imprisonment in Britain breaches his human rights and has applied to serve the…
Ebola virus hits Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone on Monday confirmed its first death from Ebola and said it was restricting travel in some areas to…
14 soldiers charged with mutiny in Sierra-Leone
(Reuters) – A Sierra Leone military court has charged 13 soldiers and a captain with mutiny and denied them bail,…
Sierra Leone bids farewell to Tejan Kabbah
Thousands of Sierra Leoneans gathered under a tropical sun in Freetown’s national stadium on Sunday to pay their last respects…
Sierra-Leone’s ex-leader Tejan Kabbah dies
Former Sierra Leone president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, widely credited as the man who returned the country to peace after years…
Sierra Leone’s leading varsity honours Tinubu
Njala University, Sierra-Leone’s best rated University has honoured Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State with a…
Sierra Leone university to honour Tinubu
Former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will on…
Sierra Leone: No nation develops without robust transport Sector
During last year’s Presidential elections, Leonard Balogun-Koroma was the chairman of the campaign committee that charted President Koroma’s victory back…
Women’s Nations Cup Draw: Falcons Happy To Face Sierra Leone
Pelican Stars coach, Edet Egan and Rivers Angels attacking midfielder, Stella Mbachu have said Sierra Leone will not trouble the…