By Mabinty M. Kamara
President Julius Maada Bio has on Wednesday 8th September 2021 launched the 157 million dollar grant approved by the Global Fund for Sierra Leone to strengthen its health system and as well as accelerate the fight against Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV and Covid-19 in the country.
By Alpha Abu
ECOWAS Heads of State have in a communiqué unequivocally condemned the military coup in Guinea and warned “every necessary action will be taken to restore constitutional order in the country”. The leaders of the regional bloc who met in a video conference with Ghana’s President Addo Dankwa Akuff- Addo as Chairman, reaffirmed their opposition to the coup by Special Forces Commander Col. Mamady Doumbouya that removed civilian President Alpha Conde from power on Sunday 5 September 2021.
One of Sierra Leone’s most celebrated football clubs Mighty Blackpool has dissolved its Steering Committee that had been in place since 10th March 2020 and set up a Working Committee. At the helm of the new arrangement is popular football administrator Rodney Michael. However since the list bearing the names of persons of members of the committee appeared, Michael has remained coy on the matter.
Apparently undecided over the appointment, Michael explained to Politico that he would make his position known after he had met with Elders of the club.
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
200 pupils along the Peninsula communities in the Western Area have benefitted from school items distributed by a local Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Reachout Salone. The items included bags, school writing materials, uniforms and shoes.
By Politico staff writer
Consultants from the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia have joined two others already in the country to support Statistics Sierra Leone in enhancing a more efficient system for the electronic census that will for the first time be implemented in Sierra Leone later this year.
By Politico staff writer
The Anti-corruption Commission has on the 8th of September 2021 presented systems review report on the Serabu Community Hospital after donor partners, the German Doctors threatened to withdraw their support from the hospital effective 1st August 2021 over corruption allegations and weak management structures. The report covers January 2019 to June 2021.
By Mabinty M. Kamara
As part of the American government’s contribution to the fight against the coronavirus disease in Sierra Leone, the new United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone, David Reimer has on Wednesday 8th September 2021 handed over to the government of Sierra Leone 151,200 (one hundred and fifty-one thousand, two hundred) jabs of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
