By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Prosecutor in the on-going preliminary investigation of Dr. Richard Konteh and two others for alleged illegal timber export has asked that the bail for Alie Suma, one of the accused, be revoked because he "interferes with witnesses".
Monfred Momoh Sesay said “we have got very strong information that is maturing into evidence that the accused and or his relations have started contacting some of our potential witnesses with the intention of interfering with them.”
The United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday raised its travel health alert to three, its highest, warning Americans to avoid nonessential travel to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The CDC Director, Tom Frieden said the agency would also send additional 50 personnel over the next month to the three countries to help the 12 staff already on ground.
The European Union said Wednesday it is allocating €2 million to fight the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa, with the money going to support the World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
By Bampia James Bundu
Newly appointed chairperson of the Human Rights Commission in Sierra Leone, Brima Sheriff, has donated four litres of chlorine to each of 15 selected schools in eastern Freetown.
He said the donation was being made on behalf of his family whom he said was committed to ensuring that schools and other institutions were supported to fight the deadly Ebola virus. He said the disease was dangerous and should be treated with the seriousness it deserved.
Dr Shek Umar Khan, the man leading Sierra Leone's fight against the deadly Ebola disease, died yesterday, days after he had tested positive for the virus. He was aged 39.
He was receiving treatment at the MSF-run centre in Kailahun where he had been taken in shortly after he was diagnosed with the virus.
Dr Khan
The Deputy Minister of Health Dr Abu Bakar Fofanah says the country's lead Ebola doctor who tested positive for the virus "is responding very well to treatment".
By Bampia James Bundu
A local Non-Governmental Organisation in Sierra Leone, Health for All Coalition, has called on President Ernest Bai Koroma "to waste no more time in declaring the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency".
The organisation's director, Charles Mambu said at a meeting with the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone that within one month, over 10 nurses had died of Ebola and that the transmission rate in Kenema was due in part to the interaction between health workers and unsuspecting Ebola patients.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
