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As Ebola keeps having and toll on Sierra Leone more and more health workers continue to be at the receiving end. The latest is Dr Michael Kargbo, a dermatologist who worked at the Magburaka Government Hospital.

He died yesterday at the Hastings treatment centre outside Freetown, four days after he had been admitted.

The death of the 64-year-old comes just a day after Dr Martin Salia died in a Nebraska Hospital after he had been flown to the United States for treatment.

Rights campaigner, Ibrahim Tommy has questioned the arrest of an opposition presidential aspirant under the Ebola emergency provisions.

It followed the arrest in Makeni on Tuesday of Alpha Timbo of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) who was charged with “Holding a public meeting without authority”. Police had alleged that Timbo held a meeting with around 50 other people at 5 Mabanta Road.

For the fourth time in as many months heavily-armed robbers have attacked the residence of a senior official of Fourah Bay College at Kortright.

According to the latest victim, the senior finance officer Jacob Tucker, "in the early hours of Monday 17th November, about five men, armed with machetes, knives and a gun, burst into my house after cutting through the metal bars in kitchen window."

He said they quickly overpowered him and his children and stole his plasma TV, a generator, several mobile phones and cash.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Communications Coordinator at the National AIDS Secretariat (NAS) has urged donor partners to not neglect the fight against the HIV which he says has also claimed the lives of many people in the country.

By Mustapha Kamara

Publicity Secretary of the main opposition SLPP party has questioned the existence of “the many vacancies in strategic government ministerial positions” saying his party demands answers.

Addressing a press conference in Freetown, Musa Tamba Sam said that about a year ago works minister, Alimamy P. Koroma and deputy education minister Mahmoud Tarawally were sacked “but they have still not been replaced”.

By Bampia James Bundu

Bombali District has finally got an Ebola treatment centre with a 100-bed facility. It was established by Addax Bio Energy Company which operates in the region.

Addax General Manager, Trevor Andres said the facility, which had been approved by the UN World Health Organisation and the ministry of health, cost them over $300,000. He said the centre had a transformer and electricity.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

On the latest leg of his provincial tour to strengthen the fight against Ebola, President Ernest Bai Koroma has praised the people of the southern district of Pujehun for "your relentless efforts in the fight to eradicate the Ebola Virus" and encouraged the people to continue in the same rhythm.