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Dead bodies at the entrance of the hospital

By Jenneh Braima and Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

The Ebola burial team at the Kenema hospital yesterday started an indefinite strike over “non-payment of allowances for October and November” leading to the abandonment of 15 dead bodies.

Adonis Aboud

By Mustapha Kamara

Chief Executive Officer of Transnational Sierra Leone says Ebola has severely impacted the activities of the satellite service provider, DSTV.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Sierra Leone’s deputy minister of tourism has disclosed that the country lost over 20,000 foreign pleasure seekers between 2013 and 2014 due to the outbreak of the Ebola virus.

Kadie Sesay told a weekly journalists in Freetown that “in 2013 the tourist industry attracted 52, 226 tourists, and that number has reduced to 32, 223 this year.”

She said the reduction was amidst cancellation of many flights as there were only Air Maroc and Brussels Airlines actively operating in the country.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

After almost 25 years the district head quarter town of the diamondiferous Kono district has finally got electricity after last week’s pre-commissioning of the facility by President Ernest Bai Koroma.

The president turned on the two 1.2 megawatt power generators in Koidu on his first visit to the district in two years.

He was accompanied by six local MPs and two members of the district and city councils.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A Freetown magistrates’ court has issued a bench warrant for a police officer for failing to testify as an investigator in an alleged assault and wounding matter before it.

The officer, Detective Police Constable 14218 David Moses Stafford Kalokoh, an investigator attached to the Criminal Investigations Department at the Lumley police station, failed to testify before the court on three consecutive occasions.

He was to also tender a voluntary caution statement by the accused to the police in court.

Miss Sankoh and Dep Min of children's affairs, MD Atilla

A class five pupil, who turned 10 on 22 November, chose to celebrate her birthday with children many of whom have lost either or both their parents to Ebola.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Pujehun District chairman of the ruling All People's Congress (APC), Mohamed Dabeni, has called for “complete intervention of all political parties in the fight to defeat the Ebola Virus Disease in Pujehun” in the south of the country.

The local politician also urged support from other development partners to work with their government in the fight to eradicate the epidemic in the entire country.