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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Mayor of the Freetown Municipality has blamed government for not “recognizing the Freetown City Council, FCC, as a key local governance structure in the fight against Ebola”.

While unveiling the council’s plans to set up an emergency centre for the Ebola disease during a press conference at the Cathedral Hall, Gloucester Street in Freetown,Mayor Franklyn Bode Gibson claimed that since the outbreak they had utilised their own funds without any help from government.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A nongovernment organisation, ActionAid International, has donated protective gears, assorted food items and a cheque of Le 4.5 million to the Kono district Ebola taskforce at the UN Conference Hall in Koidu, Kono district.

The consignment included bags of rice, sugar, onions, salt maggi and cans of sardine while the protective gears contained gum boot, overall, disinfectants and soap.

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray in Kabala

A reproductive health and women's welfare organisation has partnered with the First Lady’s office in Freetownto engage stakeholders in Koinadugu district on maternal health issues following a sharp decrease in clinic attendance.

By Mohamed Massaquoi

Medical officer in the southern district of Pujehun has admitted that the negligence of his staff caused the recent outbreak of and deaths related to Ebola in the district headquarter.

Dr. David Bome’s outburst comes after an ambulance driver and volunteer nurse contracted the disease and later died.

He told an Ebola taskforce meeting in Pujehun town that his staff had given him “the wrong information about the Ebola Virus Disease while concentrating on cash incentives.”

By Kemoh Sesay

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has in correspondence to the Football Association stated that "the level of the coaching license is still on its first level ‘C’ and will be raised to ‘B’ next year then to ‘A’ later.

According to the Director of the Football Development Division of CAF Abdel Moniem Hussein, the coaching license policy was applied last year to all inter club competitions and CAF tournaments,"Coaches without CAF ‘C’ license will not be allowed to enter the field of play."

Sunday 5 October 2014 was one of the single deadliest days in Sierra Leone since the Ebola outbreak more than four months ago, according to Sierra Leone government health statistics.

The everyday update from the ministry of health recoded 121 deaths from the Ebola Virus Disease and scores of new infections in one day. The figures, which covered the period through Saturday, put the total number of deaths at 678, up from 557 the day before, according to Reuters.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Spokesman of the ministry of health has said that “it is very difficult to deny” allegations from some members of the public that Ebola burial teams are receiving bribes from relatives of dead people.

Jonathan Abass Kamara said claims that “the burial teams remove corpses of Ebola victims or release corpses of non-Ebola people for burial for personal gains, cannot be dismissed entirely.” He added: “I am not with them when they conduct their burial activities, so I can’t deny that.”