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By Aminata Phidelia Allie

As a journalist, I always expected to go to prison someday. What I never thought about was that it would happen so early in my career. On Friday, August 8, I was on my way to the military court martial at Cockerill in Freetown when a friend, through a text message, pleaded with me to stay away “for your own safety”.

By Sallieu T. Kamara

I was at the Kambui Restaurant in Kenema recently watching one of the football matches of the just-concluded FIFA World Cup held in Brazil when police on patrol bolted me out of the blue.

By Memuna Forna

Ebola’s socio-economic backlash could be as devastating as the disease itself.

When faced with the terrible loss of life and human suffering caused by this Ebola outbreak, it becomes hard to believe that efforts to contain it will eventually succeed.  They will, but even then the battle against it won’t be over.  Its social and economic repercussions have the potential to cause as much damage to Sierra Leone as the disease itself.

By Ezekiel Nabieu

To think that the raging Ebola plague is a creation of the APC or the White Man is to exhibit the height of idiocy. It will surprise rational minds that some so-called educated citizens are mainly responsible for peddling this myth.

It has become fashionable to say “Ar nor believe say Ebola dae. Befo Ebola cam people bin dae vomit en run belleh.” That’s their skewed reasoning. For goodness sake how can a government be so sadistic as to kill off citizens whose only crime is the maintenance of peace?

In June, Sierra Leone's viral haemorrhagic fever specialist, Dr Skeh Umar Khan spoke to Politico. That was before he tested positive for Ebola and subsequently died. We first asked him how the fight against Ebola was going on.

Dr. Khan: We are moving on. As it is now, we have some cases currently being admitted. We have 41 being admitted at the moment, we’ve discharged so far 18 cases who have survived the disease.

Politico: You mean those who came in with it and then you’ve treated them and they no longer have Ebola?

By Khadi Mansaray

Since I wrote an article "Sierra Leoneans on my mind", I’ve been desperately waiting, looking for a reason to say I was wrong, and that we are a noble people. Some critics felt the content of my piece was unfair, disrespectful and some even described me as being of the war generation.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

This is the first Court Martial that I am witnessing but I am positive that Court Martials in other countries are very serious businesses and they do not last long.

Mostly two days and the accused are either convicted or acquitted. In Sierra Leone, however, the military tribunal in Freetown has proven to be just like any other matter that drags on for monthsand months, sometimes for no convincingly clear reason.