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By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

The World Health Organisation (WHO) spokesperson in Freetown has said that the Ebola outbreak may last for another year if Sierra Leone is not able to end the outbreak before the dry season.

Pieter Desloovere told Politico that the Ebola Virus Disease, which struck in May last year, affected 10,934 and killed 3,341 so far, could extend its stay in the country, the hardest hit in the region, if adequate measures were not taken to end its spread beyond April this year.

By Zainab Joaque             

The Sierra Leone Football Association has set out 10 conditions for its members to fulfill by 17th February because failure 'will leave the secretariat with no option than to ensure we carry out the regularisation process starting from all the issues raised.'

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
Chief Executive Officer of Plan International resident in the United Kingdom has disclosed plans to eradicate the Ebola Virus epidemic in the country but warns against complacency.
Nigel Chapman, who was on a visit to Sierra Leone, told journalists at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Freetown, that as a way of supporting the government they had mobilised $15 million to contribute to the eradication of the disease and minimise impact on affected children, families and communities through public information campaigns.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

After over 15 months, the Magistrate Court in Pujehun in the south of the country has committed to High Court a case of an alleged gang rape involving four men against one Christiana Juma Kamara who died.

By Mustapha Sesay

BBC Media Action in Sierra Leone, an independent charity and the only international development arm of the BBC, has designed a radio drama and discussion programme aimed at helping people better understand women and entitlements.

The programme, ‘Leh Wi Know’, a Krio statement meaning ‘let us know’, would focus on challenges women and girls faced as they went about their day-to-day activities within various communities in the country.

Mohamed lying outside the Hospital

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

A young man with a swollen stomach, recently released from prison on medical advice,has been left in the open, outside the Kenema Government Hospital.

Ibrahim Sankoh

Ibrahim Sankoh is a four-year-old boy who has for weeks been sitting in a ward at the Port Loko Government Hospital. He has lost both his parents and all his siblings to Ebola. He got infected himself but recovered. He has gone blind in what doctors say is as a direct result of the viral infection.