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By Bob Batilo Saffa in Kenema

District medical officer in the southern city of Bo, Dr Alhaji Turay, has confirmed to journalists at an Ebola orientation training in the township that five suspected Ebola cases are on the run.

He said “the issue around those suspects is worrisome for the district”, adding that a man just died of the disease in Jembeh, along the Kenema/Bo highway.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Western African College of Nursing, Sierra Leone chapter, has convened a seminar on the spread of Ebola and its treatment at the Cathedral House on Gloucester Street in Freetown.

The event started around 9am with a march past, through Siaka Stevens Street, from the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital and attracted nurses in their hundreds who distributed brochures, displayed banners and used blaring speakers to send out Ebola prevention messages.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

The Pujehun district health management team has confirmed the death of one person in the town of Zimmi from the Ebola virus.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Traders in the eastern Kono district say they will not in any way “honour and recognise” the temporary ban slammed by some authorities of the district on their weekly trade fair at the Konomayi Lorry Park in Koidu.

Abdul Tejan-Cole

The former head of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole has referred to the ban of the radio programme Monologue as "a very sad day for media in Sierra Leone".

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

The National Chairman and Leader of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) was on Sunday rained with invectives by party supporters, at the Kenema police station.
Chief Somanor Karpen had brought together the two obvious fractions within the party to talk to them on the way forward to achieving peace within the party.

The Chief Immigration Officer, Alpha Kholifa Koroma has had his tenure renewed by President Ernest Bai Koroma for the third consecutive time, becoming the longest-serving head of the department.

Appointed in April 2008 and extended in 2011, he said he was very positive about the extension of his mandate "which is testament to my performance in the department".