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By Kemo Cham 

Because of their exclusion from national economic growth, rural areas in Sierra Leone languish in poverty, a new report has revealed.

The African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2015 shows that the country`s rural areas are seriously excluded from the national economy with a particularly high prevalence of poverty in mineral rich districts like Tonkolili, Moyamba and districts far away from the capital, Freetown.

By Kemo Cham

The United Nations Children agency Unicef has announced a project aimed at ensuring pregnant girls get education despite their condition.

The initiative which has the blessing of the government will target some 3000 pregnant teenage girls with the goal of providing them tuition fees and learning materials, as well as encouraging children who remained at home following the Ebola outbreak return to school.

By Crispina Taylor

Parliament on Tuesday deferred a debate on a report by the Committee on Local Government and Rural Development due to the absence of representatives of the relevant government departments.

The report had been laid in parliament on 17^th February this year.

It`s the outcome of oversight visits by the parliamentary committee to local councils in the headquarter towns in the eastern and southern districts of the country. The committee also visited Koinadugu, Portloko, and Kambia districts in the north.

By Kemo Cham

Less than two weeks after reports of the commencement of trial of a Chinese made Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone, the United States pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has said it had started a similar study.

By Kemo Cham

The National Ebola Response Center (NERC) has unveiled a semen testing programme as part of efforts to prevent transmission of the Ebola virus through sexual intercourse.

There has been suspicion over the chance of survivors of the deadly viral disease infecting their partners when they engage in unprotected sex.

By Kemo Cham 

The Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) last week embarked on mass distribution of preventative drugs against the debilitating sickness called Lymphatic Filiariasis, otherwise known as Elephantiasis.

By Kemo Cham

The head of the National Ebola Response Center (NERC), Alfred Palo Conteh, has issued a stern warning against violations of the anti-Ebola regulations saying the time of talking was over.

The retired army major and former Defence minister was reacting to reports of violations of the Standard Burial Policy (SBP) implemented in the course of the Ebola epidemic which he stressed will remain in force long after Sierra Leone was declared free of the epidemic by the World Health Organisation.