Sierra Leone\u2019s President, His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has in a letter to his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, expressed \u201cdeep shock and dismay\u201d after learning about the 6.1 magnitude earthquake which recently resulted in the death of many Chinese citizens, in Yunnan Province, South Western China.\u00a0 (Photo: l-r\u00a0 President Ernest Bai Koroma, and President Xi Jinping)<\/p>\n
The earthquake, with a scale of 6.1 and said to be the strongest quake to hit the province in fourteen years, occurred on Monday 4th<\/sup> August 2014, killing scores of people.<\/p>\n On behalf of the Government and people of Sierra Leone and on his personal self, His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma extended \u201cheartfelt condolences to the Government and people of the People\u2019s Republic of China, especially the people of Zhatong, Ludian Country who were heavily affected\u201d<\/p>\n His Excellency President Koroma prayed for the bereaved families to be comforted in their \u201cstruggle to overcome the loss of their loved ones\u201d and prayed for the departed souls to Rest In Peace.<\/p>\n Sierra Leone and China have, since 1971 continued to enjoy strong and unshaken friendship since the establishment of diplomatic ties in that year. Both countries continue to experience progress in Trade, Economics and Technical Cooperation; Exchanges and Cooperation in all Fields including Education, Health and Culture.<\/p>\n Very recently, China made additional support of medical equipment to the tune of 10 Million Yuan ($1.63M) to the Ebola fight.<\/p>\n Sierra Leone was instrumental in China\u2019s entrance into the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sierra Leone\u2019s President, His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has in a letter to his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, expressed \u201cdeep shock and dismay\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":69820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751],"tags":[1055,15848,19421],"class_list":["post-69819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","tag-president-ernest-bai-koroma","tag-president-xi-jinping","tag-yunnan-earthquake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}