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By Mohamed T. Massaquoi.

The Chairman of the local civil society group in Pujehun, Ibrahim Swaray has accused executives of the Pujehun District Descendants' Association (PDDA) of not being active in the fight against the Ebola disease.

Speaking in an Ebola sensitisation programme on the local Radio Wanjei, he referred to recent moves by a similar organisation in Moyamba district which he said should be emulated.

The civil society chairman pleaded with PDDA executives "to join the fight to save the lives of our people".

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

World Vision Sierra Leone was at the Emergency Operation Centre at WHO headquarters in Freetown on Tuesday to make a donation of Le 300 million towards efforts against the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

The organisation’s director, Leslie Scott, said their major areas of intervention in the national fight against the haemorrhagic fever were prevention measures and awareness-raising.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

World Vision Sierra Leone was at the Emergency Operation Centre at WHO headquarters in Freetown on Tuesday to make a donation of Le 300 million towards efforts against the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

The organisation’s director, Leslie Scott, said their major areas of intervention in the national fight against the haemorrhagic fever were prevention measures and awareness-raising.

Judge Advocate Otto During, who presides over the Court Martial trying 14 alleged mutineers, yesterday sent to prison the crime reporter of Politico Newspaper, Aminata Phidelia Allie, for contempt of court.

This is the first time anyone can remember that a female journalist has been sent to prison in Sierra Leone in her line of duty, through a judicial process.

One of the best-equipped hospitals in Sierra Leone, the Chinese-run facility at Jui has been closed temporarily.

It followed the quarantining of eight Chinese medical workers in Sierra Leone who treated patients suffering from the deadly Ebola virus, the Chinese ambassador in Freetown said Monday.

“Six Chinese doctors and one nurse as well as five local nurses treated an Ebola patient at the Jui Hospital who later died of the virus,” Ambassador Zhao Yanbo is quoted by AFP news agency as saying.

Effective Thursday 14 August all banks in Sierra Leone will adjust their hours of opening to the public as a way to deal with the Ebola outbreak in the country. Those in the disease epicentre areas like Kenema will be open between 08:30 and 12:30 while those elsewhere in the country will be open between 08:30 and 1:30. This is two hours less than the current business hours.

There will also be no Saturday banking, according to the President of the Sierra Leone Association of Commercial Banks, Clement Dodoo.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

24 communities in five chiefdoms in the southern district of Pujehun have been washed away by floods.

57 houses collapsed, while 50 others were seriously damaged according to a Red Cross official in the district.

The focal person for disaster management in Pujehun for the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society, Ibrahim Pemagbi, said the floods left 1,326 people displaced.