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By Mustapha Kamara

Chief of defense staff has said that the ministry will continue to deploy military personnel to provide security for Ebola concentrated areas, prevent the further spread of the disease and eventually eradicate it.

Major General Samuel Omar Williams of the of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces, SLFA, told journalists at the recent government’s weekly press briefing in Freetown that they had deployed 1, 195 personnel so far.

Rev. Bob Tyjan Kandeh, ACC Manager, Kono

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Residents of Kono, east of the country, have accused the sub-regional manager of the anti-corruption commission, ACC, of “naked corruption and bribery” in the diamond rich eastern district.

Marie Jalloh launched the report

UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, has released its preliminary findings about the Rapid Assessment Report, explaining food security situation in the context of the current Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Over ten suspected Ebola cases at the Koidu Government Hospital holding centre in Kono have been spotted outside their encampment areas on Sunday in search of food and water.

The scene turned chaotic while people ran away from the patients but the police showed up and encouraged them to go back to the centre with the support of health workers.

With an international donors' conference happening today in London to raise funds for fight Ebola in Sierra Leone, a damning report by Save The Children says five Sierra Leoneans contract Ebola every hour.

The organisation warns that the “demand for treatment beds and nurses to halt the rapid spread of Ebola across Sierra Leone is far outstripping supply”.

As the fight against Ebola intensifies with infection rates and deaths spiking, international response is gathering pace.

Just days after an 85-member team of British military medics and engineers arrived to respond to the epidemic, 162 Cuban doctors and nurses will arrive today, according to deputy health minister, Madina Rahman.

She said an advance team had already been here and that the arrival of the bulk today would help bolster the fight to beat back the disease which has claimed over 600 lives.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

An OSD officer is being questioned by the Sierra Leone Police for the alleged murder of a certain David Kargbo of Allen Town in Freetown.

Police said the man died last month as a result of a gunshot wound he sustained from the suspect at Ojuku Junction, Allen Town.