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By Mildred Christiana Saccoh in Makeni

Plan Sierra Leone, with support from the British Department for International Development (DfID) and Irish Aid, has donated food and non-food items to the hot spot areas in the Makarie Gbanti Chiefdom in Bombali District.

The items included bags of rice, replacement package for Ebola survivors, pure water, cooking condiments, palm oil, drinking buckets, home utensils and disinfectants.

Palo Conteh, Sierra Leone Ebola chief

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Ban Ki-Moon

With no letup in the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone, United Nations Secretary General is scheduled to visit the country on or around the 19 December, according to impeccable sources at the UN headquarters in New York.

Junior doctors met yesterday and decided to go on with their stay-away-from-hospital strike action contrary to the minister of information, Alpha Kanu saying the whole matter had been resolved and that the doctors had returned to work.

President of the Junior Doctors’ Association, Dr Jeredine George, told Politico her members resolved to continue with their action while talks were ongoing with ministry of health officials to try to resolve the logjam.

The principal witness in the matter between the Inspector General of Police, John Keister and Daniel Conteh, involving alleged assault of journalist Thomas Dixon, yesterday testified at the Pademba Road Magistrates Court No 5.

According to the particulars of offence the accused were being tried on allegations of assault, causing actual bodily harm, trespass and public insult against the complainant on 18 November 2014 at his King Williams Street residence in Freetown.

By Mustapha Kamara

Executive Director of Heal Sierra Leone, a local nongovernmental organisation, says they will sue the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) for allegedly breaching an agreement to broadcast an emergency teaching TV programme.

Joseph Sannoh told Politico that the state broadcaster had agreed to broadcast the programme for four months but weeks into the agreement the corporation terminated it, hence the legal action.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

An organisation of alumni of Fourah Bay College based in the United States of America (Alumni USA) has donated one bus to the college as a way to ease the problem of transport on campus.

Speaking on behalf of staff of the college, Vice Chancellor and Principal of Fourah College, Professor Sahr Gbamanja, said the 30-seater bus would ease the transport situation.

He said that although the college was not operating at the moment, the donation would be timely when the academic session resumed.