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By Septimus Senessie in Kono

When he embarked on his Ebola social mobilisation tour and visited his own chiefdom of Sandor, Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana called on his people in the Kono District “to beunited and forget about pettiness”.

He told his people at the Kayima town court barriethat “a house divided against itself will not stand” and that “it is only with unity and family solidarity among political heads, traditional leaders and the ordinary man that we can bring tangible development to the district.”

By Kemo Cham & Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Sierra Leone will commence the long talked about trial of Ebola vaccine next month.

The trial dubbed the Sierra Leone Ebola Vaccine Evaluation Study (SLEVES) will be carried out as collaboration between the University of Sierra Leone (USL), the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), and the United States Centers for Diseases Control (CDC), which is funding it.

The West African Ebola epidemic which erupted early last year has claimed nearly 10, 000 lives, mostly in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A 35-year-old village headman of Yorwabu village in the Nimikoro Chiefdom, Kono District, eastern Sierra Leone, was allegedly “attacked and killed” by a group of wild chimpanzees.

Chief Komba Koagbanda had set out to enquire whether it was true a report he had had that some chimps had earlier chased one of his sisters away from a nearby stream where she had gone to fetch water.

By Crispina Taylor

Parliament in Sierra Leone on Tuesday approved an 83 million Euros agreement for the construction of a power transmission line that will improve electricity generation in four West African countries, including Sierra Leone.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

Police in Pujehun in the southern district of Sierra Leone have confirmed reports of the convening of a secrete trade fare at the Gbondapi community in the Kpanga Karbondeh chiefdom.

By Jenneh Braima

The National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) is presently verifying 13,000 poor homes in four districts it has identified across Sierra Leone as “extremely poor households” for a 2-year project called: ‘Social Safety Nets Cash Transfers.’

The project entails cash transfer in the form of small and regular payment that will help beneficiary households to stabilise their basic consumption and avoid having to resort to negative coping mechanism when shocks occur.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

On Wednesday, 18 February, 2015, Fourah Bay College (FBC) celebrated its 188^th year of existence. The college which was founded by the Church Missionary Society in 1827 to mainly train teachers and missionaries, according to historians, was the first of  its kind in West Africa.