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By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

The World Health Organisation spokesperson in Freetown has disclosed that the Centre for Disease Control will soon provide vaccines to possibly prevent nurses and others leading the Ebola fight from contracting the virus.

Speaking to Politico, Winnie Romeril, revealed that WHO was working with the centre in the United States together with Johnson and Johnson Company in the UK to fast-track researches that would expedite the provision of vaccines to help prevent new transmission of the Ebola virus.

By Bampia James Bundu

Chairman of the Political Parties’ Registration Commission, PPRC, has warned against political parties violating constitutional processes while conducting their congresses and preparing their financial reports.

Addressing political parties at the commission’s headquarters in Freetown, Hon. Justice M.E. Tholla Thompson, said that his commission would change its approach in regulating and supervising political parties this year.

The founder of FANT SL, a Danish charity using football to improve the lives of young people in Freetown's slum communities, Eric Rasmussen is in Sierra Leone with two journalists and a medical doctor from Denmark "to help in the fight against the Ebola virus."

According to him, the team which will be in Sierra Leone for ten days, will work with eight vulnerable communities in Freetown with employees being football coaches and community organizers.

By Crispina Taylor

Member of Parliament for constituency 068 in Bo District, Southern Sierra Leone, Paran Tarawally, has accused Airtel, one of the country’s leading mobile phone operators, of treating consumers’ complaint with levity.

The lawmaker was making an observation in a matter of over-billing that was brought before the Parliamentary information committee against the operator by an aggrieved subscriber.

By Jenneh Braima

Executive Director, Center for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL), Ibrahim Tommy, has condemned the arrest and detention of a traffic warden on the allegation of insulting and provoking Sierra Leone’s Chief Immigrations Officer, Kholifa Koroma.

Tommy told Politico that it was important for the state to protect all workers, especially junior officers who work in the traffic division of the country’s police force.

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has announced the institution of an Ebola response transparency monitoring body that`s aimed at tightening the noose over corrupt officials seeking to enrich themselves with funds dedicated to eradicating the Ebola epidemic.

The ACC said it has set up a task force to directly monitor the management of all Ebola funds that had been provided towards the Ebola fight in the country.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Pujehun recently set national record by becoming the first district to cross the 42-day period without recording any new Ebola infection. But this has also meant closer monitoring of border activities against potential cross-border infection.

Ngelley though suggested that the government could put certain measures in place, including engaging the Health ministry to deploy personnel at the border for proper screening of people who enter or leave either country.