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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Magistrate Binneh Kamara of Ross Road Court No. 1 has sent 15 persons to prison accused of participating in a public meeting.

Information contained on the charge sheet alleges that the accused “on Saturday 29 November, 2014 at Wellington participated in a public meeting not related to Ebola sensitization, contrary to Regulation 15 of the Public Emergency Regulation 2014.”

The nine men and six women pleaded guilty to the charge.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

At their ninth annual general meeting in Freetown on last week the newly-elected chairperson of National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE), has urged government to be transparent and accountable in its governance of the country’s natural and mineral resources.

The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) has established a new Ebola Treatment Centre at the facilities of the 34 Military Hospital in Freetown, according to a press release issued yesterday.

The new treatment centre was officially opened on Monday 2 December with the first batch of eight suspected and confirmed cases transferred from the Holding Centre of the military facility in western Freetown.

World Bank Group President, Jim Yong Kim, will be in Freetown on Wednesday 3 December, 2014 to reaffirm the Bank’s continued support to the government’s response to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone.

According to a press release from the Bank, Dr. Kim would join President Ernest Bai Koroma and senior officials of the government for a press conference at State House on the same day.

By Bampia James Bundu

With funds from the Chief Executive Officer of Transnational, Adonis Aboud, local journalist Mohamed Murtala Kamara has pioneered the construction of a Le15 million borehole project at the Calaba Town community.

Presenting the water well to the community, Kamara explained that he had decided to pioneer the construction project in the Calaba Town community because “I grew up in Calaba Town and the people in this community raised me up. I think I have to give back to them one way or the other.”

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

Chief Executive Officer of the nongovernmental organisation Hands Empowering the Less Privileged (HELP/SL) has donated one 5.5kva generator to the management of Radio Wanjei in Pujehun.

Siaffa Jobson Momoh Jr. told Politico that the generator, worth Le 5 million should be used to provide power supply to the radio station. He said it was their responsibility to help a community-owned property as the local broadcaster.

By Mustapha Kamara 

Women Rise Up Against Ebola, a local nongovernmental organisation, has urged government to allow women a 30% inclusion in the fight to end Ebola, the haemorrhagic fever that has claimed over 1,500 lives in the country.

Founder, Elizabeth Mans, said at the official launch of the group in Freetown that “women have a great role to play if the country is to break the chain of transmission and stop the spread of the disease”.