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A Senegalese epidemiologist has become the first World Health Organisation workers to test positive for the deadly Ebola Virus Disease wreaking havoc in West Africa.

The unnamed official was based in Kailahun district tracing Ebola cases.

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By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

The presidential flag-bearer of the opposition SLPP party has donated 300 bags of rice to victims of Ebola in Bo, Kenema and Kailahun districts.

By Crispina Cummings

Parliament, on 19 August 2014, ratified a grant agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone and the International Development Association (IDA), the administrators of Global Partnership for Education Fund.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono.

A prominent women's leader in the Fiama Chiefdom of the eastern district of Kono has called on Local Government Minister, Diana Finda Konomayi to build the boarding  school facilities she promised the chiefdom during her campaign for the bye-election in 2012 to become District Council Chairman.

By Crispina Cummings

House Majority Leader, Ibrahim Bundu, MP, on Tuesday asked in parliament how Sierra Leone would manage its relationship with its international friends after the Ebola crisis?

He made this statement after the ratification of a grant agreement between the government of Sierra Leone and International Development Association (IDA) for education.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

MP for Constituency 21 in Kono district, Tamba Entochema Ebba has come under attack from parents and a civil society organisation in his constituency for allegedly "failing to pay the annual Le 5 million scholarship agreement he signed with  the people during the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections which earned him a seat in Parliament.

By Bampia James Bundu

Former chairman of the main opposition SLPP party, John Oponjo Benjamin (JOB) has expressed concern over “the haste with which patients are discharged from Ebola health centres”.