By Mustapha Kamara
A police constable in the paramilitary OSD division of the Sierra Leone police has complained of “the brutality" of his colleague police officers allegedly meted out on him.
PC 15863, Edwin Kangaju, currently on deployment at the NPA sub-station (2) at Kingharman Road in Freetown told Politico that he was “severely beaten by my own colleagues. My mobile phone and some money were also stolen from me”. He said bullets in his riffle were also disarmed.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has airlifted more than 16 tons of medical supplies and emergency equipment to Monrovia to step up Liberia's Ebola response.
By Bampia James Bundu
In collaboration with Sierra Leone Civil Aviation Authority and USA Centres for Disease Control, the Sierra Leone Airports Authority has completed a day’s training on primary and secondary screening procedures on Ebola Virus Disease.
RAF plane evacuating Briton
A Senegalese epidemiologist has become the first World Health Organisation workers to test positive for the deadly Ebola Virus Disease wreaking havoc in West Africa.
The unnamed official was based in Kailahun district tracing Ebola cases.
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By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema
The presidential flag-bearer of the opposition SLPP party has donated 300 bags of rice to victims of Ebola in Bo, Kenema and Kailahun districts.
By Crispina Cummings
Parliament, on 19 August 2014, ratified a grant agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone and the International Development Association (IDA), the administrators of Global Partnership for Education Fund.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
