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By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Thirty-five Maternal Child Health Aides, MCH-Aides, have received their certificates after completing a 3-year training at the training centre in Koidu town, Kono district.

While handing over the certificates the centre coordinator, Sister Hellen Matturie, expressed gratitude to UNICEF, the district and city councils and the health ministry for their timely support in training and graduating the second batch of students.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

An international non-governmental microfinance organisation, BRAC, has launched its first girl primary school in the Koeyor community in Koidu to support early girl-child education in the district.

National Commission for Social Action,NaCSA, has launched one of several newly constructed feeder roads and grain stores for communities in the Upper Bambara and Luawa chiefdoms in the Kailahun District.

In a press release issued by the commission the deputy commissioner, Isatu Kamara, said the project was geared towards increasing the economic productivity of the people in the area by ensuring easy access to market areas through better road networks and storage and preservation facilities.

Saa Emerson Lamina

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

The Mayor of Koidu/New Sembehun has reacted angrily to his council being ranked the worst performer in the presidential performance contract assessment at State House on Tuesday.

Dr. Brima Kargbo

Following concerns by aid agencies that the deadly Ebola virus that has killed several people in Guinea poses a threat to Sierra Leone, the country's Chief Medical Officer says a Task Force has been set up and its members held their inaugural meeting yesterday.

President Ernest Bai Koroma will today at the State House Garden announce the performance assessment of ministers and heads of Parastatals signed with them in 2013. He will later go into a new performance contract with those he is impressed by, a State House source told Politico.

The source would not say whether there would be any immediate dismissals of those who fail to impress.

Those to be appraised also include local councils, government departments and agencies and the public universities. says a press release from State House.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

The government of Sierra Leone has denied allegations of human rights violations levelled against it by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which cited “The delay in trials and the paucity of law officers in the country".