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RSLAF being inspected by President Koroma

United Nations sources in Somalia have told Politico that a member of Sierra Leone's peacekeeping contingent serving in that country, over the weekend threw a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) bomb at his colleagues in a camp and ran into the bush.

There were no casualties.

Commander Joint Operations (CJO), Lt Gen Capewell at the Kerry Town site

As part of Britain's response to "defeat" Ebola in Sierra Leone, another 150 of its troops arrive this morning to join up with the 400 already on ground.

By Mustapha Kamara and Crispina Cummings

Member of Parliament for Constituency 95 in the Western Rural District has said that the spread of the Ebola virus disease is increasing speedily “with over twenty deaths reported daily.”

Claude Kamanda told Politico yesterday that people were contracting and dying of Ebola in the district at a faster rate. He said the reason for the increase in trend of the spread was due to the influx of people coming in from neighboring districts like Port Loko.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Some sections of the public have called on government and educations authorities to uphold the school broadcast programme that is being implemented due to the Ebola outbreak in the country.

The disease, which is highly contagious and had killed more than 900 people May, had forced government schools, colleges and private learning institutions to close down indefinitely.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Representative of the American medical institution,the Center for Disease Control in Sierra Leone, has observed that government needs more laboratories to tackle the spread of the Ebola virus.

Dr. Carrie Nielsen yesterday told a press conference at the Cathedral Hall in Freetown that they had recorded about 70 to 80% of Ebola cases and that “these far outweigh the available laboratories in the country.”

By Bampia James Bundu

Chairman Association of Clearing and Forwarding Agency (ACFA) hassaid that government needs to install a new scanning machine at the Queen Elizabeth Quay II if operations must continue smoothly.

Abdul Akim Bangura said the scanning machine they had had been in operation for about 10 years and that there was urgent need for another. He said the scanner had developed a lot of problems and “it breaks down on a regular basis which causes delaysfor our clients clearing their containers.”

By Bampia James Bundu

Deputy managing director of Bollore African Logistics, the management handling the affairs of the Freetown Terminal, has blamed delays in clearing of containers from the Queen Elizabeth II Quay on African Link Company.

Bertrand Kerguelen said the clearing agency was responsible for the management of that department.