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By Mustapha Kamara

The Constitutional Review Committee has engaged media and communications experts to seek advice on relevant laws that should be reviewed and amended in the final document that will be the outcome of the review process.

The meeting, which aimed at identifying gaps and challenges that are related to access to information and freedom of expression, was held at the commission’s office in Freetown.

Margaret Chan, WHO boss

By Mustapha Kamara

Spokesperson for the World Health Organisation, WHO, in Sierra Leone has disclosed that they will soon start to provide Serum treatments that will help cure Ebola victims in the country.

Packs of condoms

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Deputy chief medical officer at the ministry of health and sanitation has said that the outbreak of the Ebola virus continues to affect family planning, causing a massive drop in condom use since July.

Frank Timis, Chairman of African Minerals

Chairman of African Minerals Limited, AML, Frank Timis, is said to be close to securing a deal to buy the cash trapped London MiningCompany, LMC’s, operations in Sierra Leone, according to The Telegraph.

Kaifala Marah, Finance Minister

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Director of Economic Statistics at Statistics Sierra Leone has said that the Ebola outbreak has prevented the country from realising trillions of leones in 2014.

WFP logistics

With World Bank funding to the government of Sierra Leone, the United Nations World Food Programme, WFP, has airlifted 20 ambulances and 10 mortuary pickup trucks to scale up government logistical capacity in response to the Ebola Virus Disease.

Farry Kargbo

By Mustapha Kamara

Head of outreach at the Constitutional Review Committee has said that Sierra Leone’s reviewed constitution will comprise a special chapter that will protect land and other natural resources in Sierra Leone.