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By Crispina Cummings

Project Manager of the Dutch consultancy firm, PREACON Food Management, has said that Sierra Leoneans as well as foreigners haveresorted to eating fish because of warnings that Ebola can be contracted through bush meat.

Jeffery Marcathy said in Freetown that even though meat was coming from sources apart from bush, people were generally hesitant to eat meat.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A humanitarian health care service delivery nongovernmental organisation operating in the eastern Kono district, Well Body Alliance, has donated assorted drugs and medical equipment to health authorities in Kono.

The beneficiaries were the government hospital in Koidu town and the United Methodist Church Health Centre in Jaiama town, Nimikoro chiefdom as help to combat the deadly Ebola disease in that part of the country.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A man, in his twenties, has been slammed a 48-month imprisonment for stealing electrical cables valued at Le12 million, property of Guoji Construction and Investment Company, a Chinese manufacturing company operating in Sierra Leone.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

A magistrates’ court in Freetown has convicted and sentenced a 38-year-old woman to 12 months in prison or she pays a fine of Le 500,000 to the court’s treasury for obstructing the work of Ebola response teams.

Musu Esther Massaquoi, a resident of New England Ville in Western Freetown, was making a second appearance before Magistrate Seray-Wurie of Court No. 2 at Pademba Road, when she was convicted and sentenced.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Communications Manager at the National Commission for Democracy has said that they will translate relevant portions of Sierra Leone’s 1991 constitution into five local languages to ensure active participation of citizens in the review process.

In an interview with Politico, Gibrilla Kargbo, disclosed that they developed the translation initiative to empower the local people to actively participate in the on-going constitutional review process in the country.

Police say the arrest of journalist, David Tam-Baryoh of the Monologue radio programme fame was ordered by President Ernest Bai Koroma under the country’s emergency regulations currently in force.

Director of the police criminal investigations department, Chief Superintendent Ibrahim Koroma told Politico that Tam-Baryoh’s arrest followed “an Executive Order signed by His Excellency the president.”

He said the detention of the journalist was “indefinite until it pleases His Excellency” to grant his release.

Dr Godfrey George on Monday 3 November became the fifth Sierra Leonean doctor to die from Ebola.

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Brima Kargbo said the medical superintendent at the Kambia public hospital died at the Hastings Treatment Centre where he was admitted to over the weekend after he tested positive for the disease.