Sierra Leone News – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com Breaking News, Nigeria News and Top Stories Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:19:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theinfostride.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cropped-The-InfoStride-Favicon-150x150.png Sierra Leone News – InfoStride News https://www.theinfostride.com 32 32 Tinubu resting in Europe ahead of May 29 inauguration – APC https://www.theinfostride.com/tinubu-resting-in-europe-ahead-of-may-29-inauguration-apc/ https://www.theinfostride.com/tinubu-resting-in-europe-ahead-of-may-29-inauguration-apc/#respond Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:13:56 +0000 https://www.theinfostride.com/?p=345229 Congress (APC) on Thursday said that President-elect, Bola Tinubu, is resting in Europe ahead of his inauguration on May 29. Mr Felix Morka, APC National Publicity Secretary, stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme. According to Morka, Tinubu will swing to action immediately after he returns from Europe. When asked about the whereabouts of [...]

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]]> https://www.theinfostride.com/tinubu-resting-in-europe-ahead-of-may-29-inauguration-apc/feed/ 0 Ebola Epidemic: The Case of Sierra Leone’s missing Ambulances https://www.theinfostride.com/ebola-epidemic-the-case-of-sierra-leones-missing-ambulances/ Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:47:01 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=109020 Freetown, Sierra Leone – Mariam Momoh was already unconscious when the taxi pulled up in front of her house. She was pregnant and had been vomiting all morning, unable to keep anything down. Her husband, Moinina, had tried calling for an ambulance, but gave up after several hours of being told that there wasn’t one [...]

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]]> Sierra Leone is Ebola free but a Legacy of Fear remains – Al Jazeera https://www.theinfostride.com/sierra-leone-is-ebola-free-but-a-legacy-of-fear-remains-al-jazeera/ Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:13:19 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=106695 Twenty-nine-year-old Song strolls through the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, as loud music blares out from the stalls of street vendors. “The war is over,” he says. “We’ve been liberated.” After 42 days with no new cases, the World Health Organization on Saturday officially declared Sierra Leone free from Ebola. “This time last year [...]

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]]> Sierra Leone declared Ebola-free https://www.theinfostride.com/sierra-leone-declared-ebola-free/ Sun, 08 Nov 2015 11:05:22 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=106427 Residents of Freetown in Sierra Leone have celebrated the end of an Ebola epidemic that has killed almost 4,000 people since it began last year. Following 42 days with no new cases, the West African nation’s epidemic was declared over on Saturday at a ceremony attended by President Ernest Bai Koroma and United Nations World [...]

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]]> How Traditional Healers helped defeat Ebola in Sierra Leone https://www.theinfostride.com/how-traditional-healers-helped-defeat-ebola-in-sierra-leone/ Fri, 06 Nov 2015 07:51:10 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=105750 Freetown, Sierra Leone – A year and a half after the Ebola outbreak began there is at last good news for Sierra Leone. On Saturday it is expected the country will reach 42 days since the last recorded case, meaning it will be officially declared Ebola free. Many of the almost 4,000 Sierra Leoneans killed [...]

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]]> Sierra Leone faces setback in Ebola fight – Al Jazeera https://www.theinfostride.com/sierra-leone-faces-setback-in-ebola-fight-al-jazeera/ Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:11:53 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/?p=100340 More than 1,500 people have been quarantined in Sierra Leone to stop the spread of the Ebola virus. The West African country recently began a 42-day countdown to being Ebola-free. But two recent deaths have caused a setback. It has led to a renewed emphasis on increasing awareness of the virus. Nina Devries reports from [...]

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]]> #Film > The Flying Stars https://www.theinfostride.com/africa-the-flying-stars/ Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:56:24 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/09/africa-the-flying-stars/ Team captain Bornor is an amputee who plays football in Sierra Leone to cope with the horrors of war he suffered a decade ago. As he dreams of playing internationally, he wrestles with nightmares that haunt his daily life and threaten the very family he is trying to feed. Can Bornor overcome his postwar trauma [...]

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]]> Sierra Leone’s last known Ebola Patient leaves Hospital https://www.theinfostride.com/sierra-leones-last-known-ebola-patient-leaves-hospital/ Wed, 26 Aug 2015 02:05:24 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2015/08/sierra-leones-last-known-ebola-patient-leaves-hospital/ Sierra Leone’s last known Ebola patient has been released from hospital, raising hopes the west African nation may finally have beaten the devastating epidemic. President Ernest Bai Koroma hailed “the beginning of the end of Ebola in Sierra Leone” pn Tuesday as Adama Sankoh, 34, was released from hospital in Makeni, the country’s third-largest city, [...]

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]]> #Health: A Sierra Leone hospital battles Ebola https://www.theinfostride.com/a-sierra-leone-hospital-battles-ebola/ Mon, 14 Jul 2014 02:20:33 +0000 http://www.theinfostride.com/2014/07/a-sierra-leone-hospital-battles-ebola/ Your views are important to us. IRIN is currently reviewing its work and we need to understand your views and priorities. Follow @{0} [embedded content] A health worker checks a blood sample for Ebola at Kenema government hospital, Sierra Leone KENEMA, 9 July 2014 (IRIN) – Hasan Kamara patiently labels blood samples at the government [...]

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]]> IMF Executive Board Concludes the 2013 Article IV Consultation with Sierra Leone https://www.theinfostride.com/imf-executive-board-concludes-the-2013-article-iv-consultation-with-sierra-leone/ Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:35:00 +0000 http://apo.theinfostrides.com/africa/imf-executive-board-concludes-the-2013-article-iv-consultation-with-sierra-leone/ FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, November 15, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On October 21, 2013, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Sierra Leone,1 and approved a three–year arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) in support of the authorities’ economic and financial program for 2013-2016 (see Press [...]

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