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Secretary General of the opposition SLPP has led a high level Diaspora delegation to the British foreign office and House of Parliament to win assurances from the UK government in the ongoing Ebola fight.

Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie said they met with senior foreign office official, Harriet Matthews, OBE, the head of the ministry’s East and West African Division, to discuss UK aid package to Sierra Leone where the epidemic had claimed over 1,000 lives since May this year.

By Bampia James Bundu

Ethanol producing company, Addax Bio Energy, which operates in the Bombali district in northern Sierra Leone, has donated an eight bedroom isolation center for Ebola patients after the area witnessed huge increase in cases.

At the handing over ceremony in Makeni the general manager, Trevor Andres, said when he took over in May this year, there was only 11 cases of Ebola in the country.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Project manager for the Young Men Christian Association, YMCA, has disclosed that their Sum Project targeting communities in the capital city is being rolled out to commence five years of activities around young people.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A new born baby girl, apparently a week old, was found dead at the bank of the Woryie River, back of the Central Assemblies of God’s Church in Koidu Town, Kono District.

The child, whose umbilical cord showed new wound, was left naked in the still water with wounds and flies hovering around it.

By Mustapha Kamara

The Constitutional Review Committee has engaged media and communications experts to seek advice on relevant laws that should be reviewed and amended in the final document that will be the outcome of the review process.

The meeting, which aimed at identifying gaps and challenges that are related to access to information and freedom of expression, was held at the commission’s office in Freetown.

Margaret Chan, WHO boss

By Mustapha Kamara

Spokesperson for the World Health Organisation, WHO, in Sierra Leone has disclosed that they will soon start to provide Serum treatments that will help cure Ebola victims in the country.

Packs of condoms

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Deputy chief medical officer at the ministry of health and sanitation has said that the outbreak of the Ebola virus continues to affect family planning, causing a massive drop in condom use since July.