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By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

Police in the southern city of Bo say they have intercepted 53 bales of mosquito bednets stolen in Pujehun, Bo and Kambia districts.

The nets were being distributed to people across the country by the ministry of health to help combat malaria.

The UN world health organization says four more patients have been discharged from the Ebola treatment centres in the eastern district town of Kenema, bringing the number of discharged patients to 23.

The Ebola virus, which causes severe haemorrhaging and can kill up to 90 per cent of those infected, is spread by direct contact with the blood and body fluids of infected animals or people.

By Bampia James Bundu

Education for All Sierra Leone coalition, (EFA-SL), in collaboration with Western Area Budget Education and Advocacy Network (WABEAN), and support from Action Aid International, has urged the government to invest more in education to achieve quality.

By Bampia James Bundu

Landowners in Kafe Simiria Chiefdom, Tonkolili district have expressed frustrations over the closure by the ministry of mines of gold mining company, Transcend International, for the past seven months.

Community elders, youth groups, together with the chiefdom speaker and a chief of Masingbi town converged on State House in Freetown to express their frustration against the removal of the gold miner the locality.

Guinea has been accepted as 'EITI Compliant' by the international EITI Board at its meeting in Mexico City Wednesday 2 July, 2014. The board, chaired by Clare Short, congratulated the government of Guinea for its sustained commitment and leadership in the implementation of the EITI.

As a country implementing the initiative, Guinea regularly discloses the government's revenues from natural resources. Maintaining compliant status would require that the country meet all requirements in the standardadopted in 2013, including additional disclosure requirements.

By Bampia James Bundu

Concern for Public Accountability & Transparency, COPAT, has engagedlocal council ward committees and youth groups in a 2-day capacity building training on tax promotion and revenue generation in Rotifunk, in the southern district of Moyamba.

By Bampia James Bundu

Telecommunications company, Africell, has handed out 226 prizes worth over Le103 million to subscribers who took part and won in the on-going ‘play and win’ promotion being held at their offices on Wilberforce.

While he presented the awards chief corporate affairs officer, Joe Abass Bangura Jnr, commended the lucky ones for winning wonderful prizes. He said the promotion was meant to give back to society in different ways.