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By Bampia James Bundu

Indigenous transport owners’ association and owners of right hand drive vehicles say plans to ban all right-hand vehicles in Sierra Leone by September this years is "illegal” threatening to seek redress in the High Court of Sierra Leone.

At a press conference in the east of Freetown, National President of the transport owners, Alhaji Abu Bakarr Fofanah expressed disappointment at the decision.

By Matthew Kanu

Ministers and parliamentarians from Bombali District  and Paramount Chiefs have ended one-day Ebola awareness-raising drive in Makeni.

PC Bai Shebora Kasangha II  said citizens had the right to be healthy and to also support the government and its partners to achieve a better health status particularly in ensuring an Ebola-free society. He said the fight against the virus should be a national fight involving all Sierra Leoneans at different quarters.

By Crispina Cummings

Newly approved minister of energy, Henry Macauley has promised his best to both the energy sector and the country as a whole.

The engineer and former diplomat who was approved last week told Politico that his first steps would be toward identifying the challenges and where they lay. He noted that it was important for all to come on-board because everyone had different talent.

Clement Dodoo, President, Commercial Banks Association

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The Sierra Leone Association of Commercial Banks (SLACB) on Friday July 18 donated Le 150 million to the Government of Sierra Leone Ebola Fund through the Ministry of Health.

By Zainab Joaque

The United States Embassy in Freetown has donated close to US$ 1 million worth of assorted medical equipment to the Joint Medical Unit (JMU) of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF).

The equipment - in two containers of 20-ft and 40-ft each - was presented to the 34 Military Hospital at Wilberforce on Thursday 17 July by Chargé d’Affaires Kathleen FitzGibbon as part of "Project CURE" which is an initiative of the US Department of Defence's HIV and AIDS prevention programme.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Some grassroots women from 17 communities in 5 chiefdoms in the eastern Kono district have ended a peaceful protest match, calling for land rights and equal justice with their male folks.

The processions were climaxed by public meetings which targeted traditional leaders, paralegals, local court officials, civil society organisations, media and women's leaders or Mammy Queens in the chiefdoms of Tankoro, Fiama, Nimiyama, Kamara and Gbense.

By Bampia James Bundu

Addax Bio Energy has joined in the fight against Ebola in the country by presenting Le35 million and one Hilux van to the ministry of health as support to combating the killer haemorrhagic virus.

Presenting the cheque and keys to the van at the ministry’s conference room in Freetown, ADDAX General Manager, Trevor Endres, commended their “hard work in ensuring that they combat the deadly disease in the country.”