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Mon, 2016-03-07 18:26 — davidmc
SLRS Content Management Group

This group is focused on building content for the Sierra Leone Resilience system and Content Management within Sierra Leone

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Civil Society calls for more intervention in Health

Fri, 2016-04-29 10:56 — Mohamed S

The Coordinator, Health for all Coalition, Victor Lansana Koroma has called on Government and health partners to invest more resources in order to maintain progress in the fight against malaria.

 

 

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Ebola leaves a painful legacy for survivors in Sierra Leone

Fri, 2016-04-29 10:53 — davidmc

 An Ebola survivor in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Many are being turned down at government dispensaries and asked to get medicines from private pharmacies. Photograph: Olivia Acland

Published by Olivia Acland

Thursday 28 April 2016

Take a flight of stone steps to the third floor of a narrow building in downtown Freetown and you’ll arrive at a small room with billowing purple curtains, where a group of men and women are chatting over the background noise of television news.

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A second chance at schooling for pregnant teenagers in Ebola-affected Sierra Leone

Fri, 2016-04-29 10:26 — davidmc

By Harriet Mason

Updated: 28 April 2016


In Sierra Leone, a new initiative offers classes and resources to pregnant teenage girls, who are otherwise prohibited from attending school. Meet Adama, who became pregnant during the Ebola crisis but refuses to give up on her education.

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Liberia: Vaccine launch, opposition party’s planned rally dominate media

Thu, 2016-04-28 13:25 — Mohamed S

Liberia’s launch of two new vaccines and the planned rally by main opposition Congress for Democratic Change, on Thursday dominate the headlines in the Thursday, April 28 editions of Liberian newspapers.The Congress for Democratic Change of former World Soccer Best player George Weah is Thursday holding a rally to petition its standard bearer, George Weah to contest the 2017 presidential race.

During a meeting the party held with the Liberia National Police, the police advised it (CDC) which has large support in the capital Monrovia to transport its members in vehicles to its headquarters to avoid traffic jams and obstruction of free movement.

Among other things, the police also advised the CDC to assign its party members to assist with crown control.

The New Dawn newspaper published this story as its front page banner headline under the caption: “Will it hold?-Police Order CDC to truck supporters, while the Daily Observer and Inquirer newspapers carried this story on their front pages.

The Daily Observer has the headline: For Today’s March, CDC, Police Prepare, while the Inquirer has the title: “Police, CDC Agree On Traffic.”

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Liberia: Vaccine launch, opposition party’s planned rally dominate media

Thu, 2016-04-28 13:20 — Mohamed S

Liberia’s launch of two new vaccines and the planned rally by main opposition Congress for Democratic Change, on Thursday dominate the headlines in the Thursday, April 28 editions of Liberian newspapers.The Congress for Democratic Change of former World Soccer Best player George Weah is Thursday holding a rally to petition its standard bearer, George Weah to contest the 2017 presidential race.

World Bank: 'Technical and engineering solutions not a silver bullet' for growing waste problems

Thu, 2016-04-28 12:22 — Mohamed S

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STC-NESTRA embarks on logistics and supply chain management training

Thu, 2016-04-28 12:07 — davidmc

By Saidu Bah
Tuesday April 26, 2016

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MOHS Commemorates World Malaria Day

Thu, 2016-04-28 11:47 — davidmc

By Lucia S. Kamara
Apr 26, 2016, 17:08


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HISTORY OF SIERRA LEONE

Thu, 2016-04-28 11:34 — davidmc

Slavery and freedom: 17th - 19th century

The Sierra Leone river, with a natural harbour at its mouth where Freetown now stands, is one of the places where slaving ships of the European nations regularly put in to trade with local rulers for their transatlantic cargo. But it is also the site selected by a British abolitionist, Granville Sharp, for a practical experiment in philanthropy.

In the 1780s the number of freed slaves in London is growing, as a result of actions such as Sharp's in the 1772 case ofJames Somerset. The question is where they should best live and be employed. Sharp's answer is that they should settle in the continent from which they or their ancestors came.

Read more:http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=pkw#ixzz477UGxxp9

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We discover pathogens before they attack — Prof Happi

Thu, 2016-04-28 10:14 — davidmc

ON APRIL 28, 2016

In handling certain diseases, it has been proved that time is of the essence. If a patient presents at the hospital early and the ailment diagnosed early, the possibility of survival is high especially in cases like cancer, Lassa fever and Ebola. So it was a great relief when Professor Christian Happi, Dean, College of Postgraduate Studies, Redeemer’s University Ede, Osun State, came up with the Lassa Fever and Ebola Virus Disease rapid diagnostic kits.

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