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Breaking: One of the 10 European doctors repatriated over the Lassa Fever outbreak in northern Sierra Leone has died, the district medical officer Dr Abdul Mac Falama has confirmed. The Dutch doctor was one of the first to be flown home after he was confirmed to have contracted the disease …

Ten European doctors – seven Dutch and three British – have been evacuated from northern Sierra Leone for Lassa Fever. Two of them – both Dutch – and a Sierra Leonean anesthetist are confirmed cases. The others are said to be “high risk” having been exposed to the disease. According …

Police in Sierra Leone have just released on bail journalist Sallieu Tejan-Jalloh of TIME newspaper after he was detained on Monday night following an SMS he sent to the country’s Chief Minister alleging bribery. The minister, Prof David Francis, ECOBANK where the alleged bribe was said to have been paid, …

Health authorities in #SierraLeone have warned against the eating of pork for the time being, saying they suspect an outbreak of African Swine Fever. It follows the deaths in a couple of weeks of more than 1,000 pigs in four communities in Freetown. Even though the authorities say there’s no …

Breaking News: Sierra Leone has cancelled the mining license of the iron ore miner, SL Mining. Mines minister Foday Rado Yokie told me it’s due to the company’s “noncompliance with their mining agreement”. It follows a long drawn-out and sometimes acrimonious disagreeing between the two over allegations of breaches of …

Most of the southeast of Sierra Leone has been cut off from the country’s capital, Freetown after the collapse of a bridge in Gbaima Songa on the Bo highway. It followed a heavy downpour last night into this morning. Hundreds of people from especially Bo and Kenema are already stranded …

The law was passed in 1965 clearly to suppress press freedom. It allows for pre-trial detention & under it truth is not a defence. Successive leaders since the 1990s promised and failed to repeal the law which journalists say is obnoxious, retrograde and bad for democracy.— Umaru Fofana (@UmaruFofana) September …

Urgent need for a National Conference on education. We don’t need a band-aid let alone a bandage. We don’t need a placebo either. We need proper diagnosis and treatment of our crumbling education sector. Let’s meet as a nation. We have some bright brains here and abroad. Let them lead …

#SierraLeone is among only six west African countries that met the minimum requirements of fiscal transparency for 2019 as listed by the US State Department. Senegal, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote D’Ivoire and Cape Verde are the others. The annual global report is published based on criteria including “having key budget …

Breaking: The chambers of Magistrate Hannah Bonnie were broken into and “thoroughly” ransacked apparently over the weekend, according to #SierraLeone’s Director of Public Prosecution, Easmon Ngakui. Her offices are located next door to the country’s maximum security prison at Pademba Road. The magistrate, who’s presiding over the trial of 23 …