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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Malnutrition is also a major concern in Sierra Leone, and health officials, who are busy exploring solutions to rectify the situation, say it is a worrying problem.

The status of malnutrition is closely linked with the Ebola eradication campaign in the country as health officials have always made it clear that the capacity of a person’s immune system to ward off viral or bacterial invasion of their system is contingent on their nutritional status.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The stubbornness of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, compounded by its re-emergence in the neighboring Liberia, has forced Sierra Leonean health officials to adopt a new health plan known as the Service Level Agreement (SLA).

By Kemo Cham

The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) has returned for phase II of its media development project in Sierra Leone.

IWPR, an independent not-for profit organisation, works with media and civil society to promote positive change in countries in transition, especially those in conflict or crisis. In 2014, it ran a one year long project in the country which saw journalists trained on freedom of information legislation and access to government information.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Civil society organizations have welcomed the reappointment of the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara with caution.

News of the extension of the term of the ACC boss was revealed over the weekend in a statement from the anti-graft agency.

“President Ernest Bai Koroma has reappointed Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara to serve another five-year term as Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC),” reads part of the statement sent to Politico.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The public health emergency declared to stem the spread of the Ebola virus has taken a political dimension, amidst indication from the presidency to maintain the increasingly controversial status quo.

By Ibrahim Sheriff, Houston, Texas, USA

I am inclined to weigh in on the Sierra Leone People’s Party’s (SLPP) internal problems revolving on social media and other Sierra Leonean media and social spaces. Let me weigh in NOT as an operative of an independent radio station that I found and direct, and which is called Sherix Webradio, but as a Sierra Leonean who has the God-given right to freely participate in the affairs of the country.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara