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By Mustapha Kamara jnr

A community nurse at the Kroo Bay, one of the biggest slums in Freetown, has warned of a sharp rise in the number of teenage pregnancies within the last few months in the community.

Zainab Barry told Politico on Tuesday that the Kroo Bay Community Health centre was recording at least fifteen cases in a month.

“I have been working here for the past two years, but I realized that there has been an increase in the number of teenage girls getting pregnant,” Nurse Barry said.

By Jenneh Brima

Politico newspaper has launched a campaign to save a hopeless young Ebola survivor, Ibraim Sankoh. The 4-year-old boy is currently languishing in a ward in the Port Loko Government Hospital in the northern Sierra Leonean Port Loko District, where he has been waiting for what destiny holds for him.

Sankoh lost his parents and siblings to the virus which left him totally blind on one of his eyes after recovering from the disease.

African Minerals Limited (AML), the leading iron ore miner in Sierra Leone, has gone broke.

The company which owns 75 percent of the Tonkolili Iron Ore Project in the north of the country said Tuesday it was unable to meet debt commitment in relation to a $400m convertible bond.

“Under the terms of the Bond, the biannual coupon payment of $17m is due on 10 February 2015. The Company advises it has insufficient funds to meet this payment, and it is unlikely that such a payment will be made in the near future,” AML said in a statement published on its website.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The Director of Information and Communications Technology of the University of Sierra Leone has disclosed that the university has opened over six thousand email accounts for registered students.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Former deputy minister of education, Mahmoud Tarawally, who faces charges of rape and assault in the High Court, appeared yesterday where the victim’s former boyfriend testified against him.

The matter, which started at the lower court over a year ago, was committed to the upper court for proper trial last year after the prosecution adduced sufficient evidence against the sacked minister before magistrate Komba Kamanda then at Court No. 2 in Freetown.

By Bampia James Bundu

Sierra Leoneans for Ebola Relief (SLER), an international humanitarian organisation based in the USA, has donated food and medical equipment worth $1.5 million to the country’s National Ebola Respond Center (NERC).

While presenting the items, Roselin J. Smith of Constituency 103 in the Western Area Urban, explained that the organisation drew its membership fromcivic organisations that came together to raise funds and secure medical supplies in support of the fight against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

Dr Nahim

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr.

Retired Consultant Psychiatrist at the Kissy Mental hospital says Sierra Lone has over six hundred and fifty thousand mentally retarded persons.