I' ve traversed this path - Courage to traverse the threshold

Ebola Undermines the Progress made by the MDG in Sierra Leone and the Region. (Andrew Benson Greene). Jeanne Sauvé 04 In 2004, I was summoned to be a Guest Speaker at International Corporations Days (ICD) hosted by CIDA in Ottawa. The pith of the discussions then centered on the 'Millennium Development Goals' Moving from Consensus to Momentum'. During those youth years, I spoke on the panel 'What was youth doing to Achieve the MDG'?. I noted that 'Poverty is more than a lack of food, it can also be a lack of opportunity to participate." However, I believe that if the event were to happen today, as it did a decade ago, I could have added that 'poverty can be the lack of opportunities for good health care system to address health attacks as scathing as Ebola'. One of the major highlights of the ICD event was from Professor Sach's keynote remarks. I watched and listened attentively and with admiration, as Professor Jeffrey Sachs raise a compassi...

Disrupting the Peace and Defining War in the times of Ebola. When we think about wars, our mind is often led adrift to imagine only of firearms usage, gun proliferation, shooting and bombing, straying refugees and a whole gamut of such images of unrest caused by the hovering bullets. In like manner, some understand peace erroneously as to mean when the guns are silent. Photo Credit: John More, (Doctors Without Borders). The recent spate of Ebola crises makes me believe that the method of warfare has forever changed from the way it was perceived. The Ebola war has taught us a new lesson and made contemporary warfare even more different. So sa d to say that our country Sierra Leone is hosting another war in the form of Ebola, having been attended by a terrifying 10 years of brutal civil war and unrest in which thousands of people died. Everyone thought the peace will not hold sway to another warring and worrying years. But alas, the peace wa...

A tripartite Ebola attack demands a tripartite solution.   The Ebola outbreak still continues to be a sore sight of public health emergency in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. These three countries known as the Mano River Union countries (MRU), have served a common border since time in memorial, and of course quite tenuous borders which makes it all the more vulnerable to spontaneous inflow of border crossing at this time of unrest caused by the Ebola outbreak. You may recall that the demarcation of these countries, (history teaches us glaringly), was made by colonial authorities during the colonial era. I often imagine that these three countries were a single nation before the thin lines were drawn by Britain, France and America in the 'scramble and partition for Africa'. However these countries taste a bitter-sweet relationship of economic and business exchanges and of diseases war and upheavals. The recent spate of Ebola outbreak in the past months since the disea...