By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
CEMMATS GROUP Limited, a local consultancy unit in Sierra Leone, is in partnership with the Freetown City Council set to construct a high scale market facility at the King Jimmy community in Freetown.
Sierra Leone may lose academic year
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
The Registrar of the University of Sierra Leone says if the Ebola outbreak "continues at this rate until the end of February 2015, we might not be able to save the 2014/15 academic year."
Sorie Ndigi Dumbuya told Politico in an interview at his office yesterday that a number of actions were now being taken to meet the challenges posed by the outbreak.
WFP Ebola rice is "expired, rotten" - political parties claim
By Mustapha Kamara
Acting Chairman, All Political Parties’ Association, APPA says rice supplied to quarantined homes by the World Food Programme “has the potential to kill more people as it is expired and rotten”.
Kerry Town Ebola centre opens
There were dramatic scenes at the Kerry Town Ebola treatment centre which opened yesterday just outside Freetown.
Four patients were brought in with three taken into the treatment centre after being kept at the triage for a while.
One of the patients, who showed signs of Ebola - nausea, diarrhoea, high fever and bloodshot eyes - dashed out of the centre.
It took persuading by the Save The Children staff who run the British-built facility to persuade him to return after he sat dizzily outside.
Tam-Baryoh calls for dialogue
Detained journalist Dr Tam Baryoh has instructed his lawyers to pursue dialogue as the means to dealing with the issue of his arrest and detention allegedly on “Executive Detention Orders.”
Kenema gets Ebola survivors’ association
By Mohamed Vandi
Survivors of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease in the eastern district of tow of Kenema, with cumulative confirmed cases of 490 as at 5 October, have formed an association to promote their interests.
The founder of “Ebola Survivors’ Association”, Bai Bai Kamara, said the initiative was to cater for the welfare of all discharged Ebola survivors who “are being marginalized and neglected.”
ACC probes Ebola payment
By Mohamed Vandi
Anti-Corruption Commission, ACC, is investigating the finance officer of the District Health Management Team, DHMTin Bo, Obai Koroma, for alleged fraud in the ongoing payment of allowances to staff and volunteers of the anti-Ebola campaign.
On the 20October this year, three senior officials stormed the offices of the DHMT, forcefully entered the office of the finance officer and took away his payment vouchers. The incident happened in the full view of journalists and members of civil society.
