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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara and Mustapha Kamara

Susan’s Bay community chief, Pa Alhaji Alimamy Kamara II, has complained that the sanitary condition in his community "is extremely disgraceful and has put all our lives are under threat by opening us to health hazards".

He said there were only two latrines available for more than 15,000 residents of the seaside community, pointing out that their two councilors were showing little or no concern.

By Mustapha Kamara

Politico can authoritatively reveal that more than 100 including four Assistant Inspectors General will be sent on terminal leave between 1st January and 24th March 2015.

The four AIGs are Director of the Operational Support Division Thomas T. Kamara, Director of Traffic Management Vincent Nabieu, Regional Commander South David Sesay and Regional Commander Freetown West, Philip Wellington.

By Jenneh Braima

UNICEF’S Child Protection Specialist in Education, Janet Tucker, has expressed concern about a possible high rate of teenage pregnancy when the Ebola outbreak would have been eradicated from the country.

She was responding to information reaching them about the large number of school girls becoming pregnant following the forced closure of schools as a result of Ebola.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

CEMMATS GROUP Limited, a local consultancy unit in Sierra Leone, is in partnership with the Freetown City Council set to construct a high scale market facility at the King Jimmy community in Freetown.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The Registrar of the University of Sierra Leone says if the Ebola outbreak "continues at this rate until the end of February 2015, we might not be able to save the 2014/15 academic year."

Sorie Ndigi Dumbuya told Politico in an interview at his office yesterday that a number of actions were now being taken to meet the challenges posed by the outbreak.

By Mustapha Kamara

Acting Chairman, All Political Parties’ Association, APPA says rice supplied to quarantined homes by the World Food Programme “has the potential to kill more people as it is expired and rotten”.

There were dramatic scenes at the Kerry Town Ebola treatment centre which opened yesterday just outside Freetown.

Four patients were brought in with three taken into the treatment centre after being kept at the triage for a while.

One of the patients, who showed signs of Ebola - nausea, diarrhoea, high fever and bloodshot eyes - dashed out of the centre.

It took persuading by the Save The Children staff who run the British-built facility to persuade him to return after he sat dizzily outside.