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Thu, 2016-03-31 12:59 — Mohamed S

[12:47, 3/31/2016] +232 79 807498: UMARU FOFANA

Medical sources in Kailahun, eastern #SierraLeone say there's an #Ebola scare in the district after a woman showed signs and symptoms of the disease. She had returned from a funeral in Guinea just a few miles away. The result of the test is being awaited. Today health officials from the capital, Freetown arrived in the area where the outbreak first appeared in 2014.

[12:48, 3/31/2016] +232 79 807498: The first result has been read out this morning in d radio that it is negative but they are trying for the second result to confirm properly before tomorrow according to d radio.

FM 98.1 report this morning

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Two Years Later, Ebola Is a Ticking Time Bomb

Thu, 2016-03-31 12:08 — davidmc

Ebola survivors could be carrying live Ebola virus in their eyes. Many of them are going blind, but in fear of the epidemic's resurgence, hardly anyone is doing anything about it.

One morning, in Atlanta, Georgia, Ebola survivor and infectious disease physician Ian Crozier walked up to his bathroom mirror to brush his teeth and did a double take. His formerly blue left eye had turned green.

He’d been experiencing strange ophthalmological symptoms for weeks, and a diagnostic test revealed the culprit: the Ebola virus, relentlessly stalking him. Though undetectable in his blood, the virus had been squatting for months in the anterior chamber of the eye, replicating without spurring an immune response. Now, Crozier was losing his vision.

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Green" industrialization part of focus for African Development Week

Thu, 2016-03-31 12:00 — Mohamed S

Carlos Lopes. File Photo: UNECA

Migration, climate change and what's been called "green" industrialization are just some of the issues topping the agenda when African economic and finance ministers gather in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, beginning this Thursday.

The conference is part of the wider events for the first African Development Week organized by the UN Economic Commission for Africa, known as the ECA, and the African Union.

Carlos Lopes is the ECA Executive Secretary at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).

Ernest Chicho asked him about the background for the week and what to expect.

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CAN SIERRA LEONE’S ECONOMY GROW IN SPITE OF THESE INTERTWINING FACTORS?

Thu, 2016-03-31 11:56 — davidmc

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released a report on the economic realities of Sierra Leone, saying that the country’s citizens will experience a 4.3 percent growth in their economy. However, it is easy to express some doubt over this analysis, after all, the country is just recovering from the effects and economic shocks caused by the Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2013. The IMF team that determined the economic growth of the country in 2016 was led by John Wakeman-Linn during their visit to Freetown from March 15 to 29, 2016.

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UN declares Ebola public health emergency over; urges 'high vigilance' against flare-ups

Thu, 2016-03-31 11:27 — Mohamed S

A teacher is preparing a bucket with water to use for hand washing. After being kept closed for three months due to the Ebola outbreak, schools across Guinea reopened on 19 January 2015. Photo: UNMEER/Martine Perret

29 March 2016 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said West Africa's Ebola outbreak no longer constitutes an international public health threat, declaring that the 20-month global emergency response is over but stressing that a “high level of vigilance” must be maintained.

The Emergency Committee convened by WHO Director-General Margaret Chan concludedat its ninth meeting that the Ebola situation in West Africa no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern and that the temporary recommendations adopted in response should now be terminated.

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Inflation Increases to 8.86 Percent in January 2016

Thu, 2016-03-31 11:08 — Mohamed S

The annual inflation rate increased in January 2016 to 8.86 percent from 8.85 percent in December 2015, the statistics agency has stated in a release. The depreciation of the Leone has been the major reason for the increase in prices of all the commodities in the consumer pricing index across the country.
The annual rate of inflation increased from 10.40 percent in December to 10.67 percent in January in the Northern Region. In the Western Region, it decreased from 8.72 percent in December to 8.49 percent in January. In the East inflation climbed from 9.47 percent to 9.79 percent and in the South from 8.14 percent to 8.42 percent.
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Emergency Over Ebola Has Ended, W.H.O. Says

Thu, 2016-03-31 11:04 — davidmc

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Ebola and Zika epidemics are driven by pathologies of society

Thu, 2016-03-31 10:53 — davidmc

This article is a foundation essay. These are longer than usual and take a wider look at a key issue affecting society.

The global health threats posed by recent viral epidemics, such as avian flu, H1N1, Ebola andZika, have been happening too frequently to be dismissed as coincidental.

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Chamber of Commerce Starts Trade Fair March 30

Thu, 2016-03-31 10:31 — Mohamed S

The Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture is holding its annual trade fair at the Siaka Stevens Stadium from March 30 to April 25, Allan Metzger, Business Development Officer of the Chamber said in an interview last Saturday.

The trade fair will attract businesses from Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Senegal, Liberia and Guinea. Local businesses and companies like the Banks, Insurance companies and those in clothing and textiles will participate in the trade fair. Milla Group, Shankerdas will all have booths in the stadium, Mr. Metzger said.

In November-December the Chamber held a post Ebola International and national trade fair that attracted mostly local businesses. “Ebola is over so we are getting back to our normal timetable of hosting the trade fair in March April,” Mr. Metzger said.

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