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By Mustapha Kamara  

An opposition parliamentarian has expressed fear that more people in Kailahun are likely to contract Ebola after a dramatic drop in infection rate in the former epicenter.

Mustapha Brima said this was due to “careless disposal methods employed by members of the National Ebola Response Center (NERC)”.

Argus approaching Freetown port

The British support ship, Argus, is along the coast of Sierra Leone and docks this morning at the Queen Elizabeth Quay in Freetown.

According to a UK Defence ministry source, she is here "to help defeat Ebola in he shortest possible time and will be around for months".

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Workers at the Freetown International Airport in Lungi have planned to challenge some administrative decisions and protest the possible re-employment of thegeneral manager who was retired on 13 October this year.

John Sesay told Politico that he was actually retired but had been “reinstated by my employers on contract basis,” adding that his retirement was not an issue because police in the northwest division had settled the matter by replying to the grieving workers.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The officer commanding Anti-Robbery Unit for Freetown West has said that no arrests have been made after armed robbers attacked Joshua Nicol, Manager of Cotton Tree News and current affairs output of Radio Mount Aureol.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Police at the Tankoro Division in the eastern Kono District have arrested and transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department headquarters in Freetown 11 people among them Sia Sam Bayraytay, younger sister of Vice President Samuel Sam Sumana.

Police in Freetown said the group of eleven suspects, including local authorities like Councillor Kai Lawrence Mbayo of Ward 63, the ruling party All Peoples Congress youth chairman, Mohamed Bandagbara, were arrested following a protest that left two people dead with bullet wounds.

By Allieu SahidTunkara

Chinese ambassador to Sierra Leone has told a press conference at the Chinese Embassy in Freetown that his country will provide US$82 million and other logistics to Ebola affected countries in the Mano River Union.

Zhao Yanbo disclosed that on the 24 October this year the Chinese President, I Jinping, announced in Beijing in a meeting with Tanzanian President JakayaKikwete that his government would provide much more assistance to the Ebola affected region in Africa.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Police at Tankoro division and soldiers of the Ninth Infantry Battalion at Sembakoro village in Kono district have been accused of “carrying out illegal mining exercises at Kongo Bridge, Lebanon in Koidu Town”.

According to some residents around the mined out bridge area and some members of the civil society groups in the diamond rich district, there were well over nine bore holes, locally known as ‘damakuru’, around the Kongo Bridge and some areas close to the main road in and out of the district.