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By Kemo Cham

The Health NGO FOCUS 1000 has conducted a training of trainers for religious leaders on communications on malaria prevention and control.

The training session held on Wednesday, September 30, and hosted at the Charm’s Hotel in Aberdeen, Freetown, brought together about 24 people, mostly Imams and Pastors, from within the Western Area.

Organized with support from the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Sierra Leone, the participants were drawn from the Kombra Network, the community engagement arm of FOCUS 1000.

By Kemo Cham

Scientists at the Central Veterinary Laboratory at Teko in Makeni are analyzing samples from dead pigs, amidst fears of an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF), health authorities say.

The samples were collected from Rogbere Village in Masimera Chiefdom, Port Loko District, northern Sierra Leone, were local health authorities had raised alarm following reported multiple deaths of pigs, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS).

By Kemo Cham

Sierra Leone on Monday embarked on a mass vaccination exercise targeting 20, 000 animals prone to the rabies disease, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) has said.

An official told Politico that the exercise was designed to coincide with the 2020 commemoration of World Rabies Day (WRD) which falls on September 28.

By Kemo Cham

Sierra Leone, alongside West African neighbors Liberia, Mali and Niger are recording some of the highest fatality rates in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, figures from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) for the past week show.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

The campaign group, Center for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL), has called for a special budget to be developed by the Sierra Leone Police for the Family Support Unit (FSU). CARL said this will help the capacity of the FSU to tackle Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV).

The FSU is a unit in the Police force that is responsible to investigate and prosecute SGBV related cases, among several other functions.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The Ministry of Information and Communication is on the verge of expanding the country’s fiber optic network to the Eastern region, Minister Mohamed Rahman Swarray has said.

The expansion is part of government’s broader priority to ensure digital inclusion as stated in its Medium Term National Development Plan, Sawaray added as he was addressing journalists in a press briefing in Kenema on Wenesday.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

Former President Ernest Bai Koroma has been recognized for his good leadership style with an award by the United States (US) National Black Caucus of State Legislators.

According to the office of the former president, in a notice dated 1^st October, Koroma was bestowed with the award on 30^th September during the 5^th US-Africa Investment Forum and Policy Dialogue which was held virtually. The conference was held on the theme: ‘US-Africa Relations: A necessary Realignment.’