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A group of scientists from the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, have said they are ready to join the global search for a possible Ebola vaccine.

The deadly Ebola Virus Disease has killed more than 4,000 people in the three Mano River Union countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

There was protest on Fourah Bay College campus by some members of the junior staff of the college who threatened to withhold their services because their employers “refused to increase their salaries as promised”.

Joseph Turay, who appeared to be leading the protest, said they were out in the open for two things: “the failure of the college administration to increase our salaries and the indifference of our president.”

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Sierra Leone’s Human Rights Commission, HRCSL, has called on the ministry of internal affairs, ministry of justice and the prisons department to facilitate the institution of a coroner’s inquest into every death that occurred within the country’s prisons.

The commission made the call in the recommendations section of its ‘State or Human Rights Report, 2013’, which was released last week. I

Secretary General of the opposition SLPP has led a high level Diaspora delegation to the British foreign office and House of Parliament to win assurances from the UK government in the ongoing Ebola fight.

Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie said they met with senior foreign office official, Harriet Matthews, OBE, the head of the ministry’s East and West African Division, to discuss UK aid package to Sierra Leone where the epidemic had claimed over 1,000 lives since May this year.

By Bampia James Bundu

Ethanol producing company, Addax Bio Energy, which operates in the Bombali district in northern Sierra Leone, has donated an eight bedroom isolation center for Ebola patients after the area witnessed huge increase in cases.

At the handing over ceremony in Makeni the general manager, Trevor Andres, said when he took over in May this year, there was only 11 cases of Ebola in the country.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Project manager for the Young Men Christian Association, YMCA, has disclosed that their Sum Project targeting communities in the capital city is being rolled out to commence five years of activities around young people.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

A new born baby girl, apparently a week old, was found dead at the bank of the Woryie River, back of the Central Assemblies of God’s Church in Koidu Town, Kono District.

The child, whose umbilical cord showed new wound, was left naked in the still water with wounds and flies hovering around it.