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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Crime officer at the East End Police Division in Freetown says crime rate in that that part of the city “has relatively reduced due to the Ebola outbreak in the country”.

Assistant Superintendent Thaimu Balie Sesay said he took up operation in March of this year at a time when “the crime rate was a bit on the high side.”

He said even though crime rates were “usually very high in the rainy season” and “low in the dry season,” the Ebola outbreak had helped reduce the rate at which crimes were occurring.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Residents of Tankoro chiefdom in Koidu, Kono district have challenged OCTEA Koidu Limited over “the dumping of ball stones and heavy boulders about 25 metres away from dwelling houses” at Bayoh Street.

They vowed not to leave their homes at the next blasting exercise and warned that if the company did not stop depositing their “mining waste materials” they were likely to be “exposed to danger”.

By Crispina Cummings

Chairman of the sub-committee on finance in parliament has warned that they “will go after any and everybody who uses Ebola funds for other selfish purposes”.

Hassan Sheriff of Constituency 53 in Port Loko district was addressing the House just after the ratification of a US $28 million grant for government’s Ebola emergency response project by the International Development Association.

Western fighters in war-stricken country claim Ibrahim Kamara, also known as Khalil al-Britani, died in US air strike on Aleppo

A 19-year-old Sierra Leonean boy from Brighton in the UK is believed to be the latest British jihadi to be killed in Syria, having died in the past 48 hours.

Militants in the war-torn country say Khalil al-Britani, whose real name is Ibrahim Kamara, died after a US air strike on Aleppo this week.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

I write this piece not heedless to the fact that parliament recently had a meeting with the media, in which the latter was cautioned about reporting on Ebola especially in a state of emergency. Well, Parliament did not tell us to stop edifying the public with what obtains exactly on the ground: truth. And that is just what I intend doing here, with no malice; but for the purpose of reformation. Yes, I need say this; our messages need no longer be implied.

On Monday 15 September , Sierra Leone was graced by the visit of the President of Ghana and Chairman of ECOWAS, John Mahama. He was the first and so far only foreign head of state to visit the country since the Ebola outbreak nearly four months ago. His solidarity visit came amid concerns that the disease is spreading and the country is being ostracised.

British troops as they landed in Freetown

An advance contingent of British Army troops landed in Lungi yesterday in response to the Ebola epidemic.

Numbering 29, the medical team include a Brigadier and a General.