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By Steven Bockarie Mansaray

Authorities in Koinadugu, north of the country, have restructured the two main groups tasked with eradicating the Ebola virus disease in that district.

The District Ebola Taskforce Committee (DETC) and the recently created District Ebola Response Center (DERC) have got new leadership.

Doctor (retired) Alhaji Fasineh Samura, who until now headed both bodies, has been confirmed the substantive head of the DERC. He was replaced by Sajor Bah at the taskforce level.

By Septimus Senessie

The civil society organisation Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) has donated food and non-food items to 90 households of 30 quarantined homes in the Kono District, eastern Sierra Leone.

The distribution of food items, which include rice, cooking condiments, among others, comes after huge outcries from quarantined homes in the district with some people constantly complaining of not receiving timely food supply.

By Mustapha Sesay

Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Sierra Leone has announced that they will donate medical equipment and bags of rice worth Le 40 million to the country’s National Ebola Response Centre.

The items, according to the General Overseer, Pastor Adewale Kalode Adesina, would be divided into three parts so as to serve their target groups. He said they would also cater for their congregation, quarantined homes in the provinces.

The French charity organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres says no Ebola cases have been admitted at the treatment centre in Kailahun since 11 December. In its latest report released yesterday, it warns however that “while Ebola is still present in other districts, the possibility will remain that travelers may present with Ebola in Kailahun”.

By Bampia James Bundu
Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Community Affairs has warned students across the country who he said are planning to
protest for the reopening of schools and colleges. Learning institutions have been shut since mid last year as a result of the
Ebola outbreak.
"We have gathered intelligence from reliable sources that students are going around rallying behind others to undertake peaceful

By Crispina Taylor
A Presidential nominee for Appeal Court judge says the Sierra Leonean judiciary requires improvement to enhance efficient justice delivery.
Justice Sheku Abdulai Fofana said that the judiciary needed to recruit more personnel because it "lacks man power."
Urging lawyers to be more time conscious, Justice Fofanah stated that there were bundles of cases lying in courts in the provinces "without

By Bampia James Bundu
One of Sierra Leone's leading hip hop artists, Amara Dennia Turay, commonly known as 'Kao Denero',  has donated 30 bags of rice to Don
Bosco Fambul and assorted food items, including bags of rice, to some quarantine homes in Freetown.
Making the presentation, Manager of the US-based Sierra Leonean artist, Jasper Sembie, explained that they as a family decided to join
hands in the fight against Ebola "because it is a national course that we all must commit ourselves to".