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Health stakeholders in The Gambia have stepped-up more efforts and strategies to prevent the highly contagious Ebola disease from entering The Gambia, after its deadly outbreak in the neighbouring West African countries of Guinea , Liberia and Sierra Leone. Officials of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare […]

A school in Sierra Leone could open its doors in September, thanks to a global fundraising effort that started in Bermuda. The Hope Academy for Girls has been a project long in the making, according to organiser Ngadi Kamara, daughter of the fundraiser founder, Aliea Kamara. https://www.royalgazette.com/article/20140325/NEWS/140329841

IT is always painful to realise a loss, but most of the time it is wise to cut and run. London Mining looks like just such a situation after floods and production delays have hammered the shares of the Sierra Leone-based iron ore miner. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/questor/10719883/Questor-share-tip-London-Mining-hit-by-flooding.html

RWANDA must win one of their two matches scheduled for today in the ongoing ICC Africa Division 3 tournament in South Africa to qualify for Division 2. Coach Ed Pearson’s team, who lead the four-national tournament standings after three matches, takes on Sierra Leone in the morning and Swaziland later in the afternoon. https://allafrica.com/stories/201403250142.html

There has been an outbreak of the deadly disease called Ebola in neighbouring Guinea-Conakry and experts say it’s likely to spread in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Guinea Bissau and Mali, five countries that share borders with Guinea-Conkary. But of the five, Sierra Leone is more threatened because the outbreak occurred in South-Western Guinea which is […]

Our Supporter of the Month for March is Ami-Mattu Amara. Her baby (Joshua) was born 10 weeks prematurely and needed specialist care. Although Ami-Mattu now lives in the UK, she was born in Sierra Leone, so she is aware of how lucky Joshua is to have had access to essential  https://allafrica.com/stories/201403210040.html

Day One – Bomeh dump, Freetown I meet father-of-two Sheka, one of the 100 people living on the dump. Since the last time I came to Africa, with Comic Relief in 2011, I have become a father three times over, so meeting him was especially affecting. https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-03-21/david-tennant-my-sport-relief-sierra-leone-diary