By: Sylvester Alhaji Massaquoi Health Alert Sierra Leone, a local Civil Society Organization has ended a day’s engagement with stakeholders in Pujehun District on emergency response and health preparedness on COVID-19 and other epidemics. The meeting according to the Project Manager of Health Alert Sierra Leone, David Alieu, was in line with the Reproductive, Maternal,
By Joseph Lamin Kamara in Freetown and Mohamed T. Massaquoi in Pujehun Sierra Leone is yet to reopen its land border with Liberia since it tightened security measures regulating movements between the two countries, following the outbreak of the Ebola disease, officials said Tuesday. This followed reports that Liberia opened its land border with the country on Sunday, after
By Sylvester Alhaji Massaquoi Disagreement has emerged between the Pujehun District Council (PDC) and sections of the headquarter town over the Council’s decision to construct a Clock Tower at Gobaru Junction on the approach to Pujehun town. Foday Kandeh Rogers, the newly-elected chairman explained that the clock tower project was conceived in the best interest of the
By Mohamed T. Massaquoi Hundreds of pupils of the Holy Rosary Girls Secondary School in Pujehun town have demonstrated against an alleged encroachment on a piece of land believed to be owned by the Catholic mission. The demonstration allegedly resulted in the vandalising of a wall-height building constructed few meters away from the school by some members of the Kamara family
By Mohamed T Massaquoi. The chairman of the Pujehun District Council has kept up his attacks on the District Health Management Team accusing them of "playing games with the lives of residents of Pujehun district".