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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Spokesperson for the civil society group, Mental Health Coalition, has appealed to communities to incorporate and not ostracise people who have survived the Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone.

George Bindi told a press conference at the Sierra Leone nongovernmental organisations headquarters in Freetown that Ebola survivors were being rejected by their communities.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Presidential Adviser on health says people who are declared to have survived the Ebola virus should abstain from having sex for three months after the declaration.

Yabom Thaslim Sesay Koroma, who was speaking at the Ebola treatment centre at Hastings where 33 more survivors had been discharged, warned that the disease could remain in human bodies for that long even after surviving the attack.

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

Chairman Kailahun district council has told Politico that they are near completion of an Ebola recovery centre in theeastern district town to stop a possible recycling of the infection in that part of the country.

Barrister Alex Bonafa said when commissioned the center, located at the former military base, would accommodate all discharged Ebola survivors for ninety days before they would be released to their communities.

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray Kabala

The Coordinator of the Koinadugu District Ebola Taskforce says anyone who dies of Ebola in the district henceforth will be cremated.

Momoh Konte said this to Politico after the district became the last to record a confirmed case of Ebola - two people who have already died.

By Zainab Joaque

Concern is growing in media circles that the government will soon take over media regulation as it emerged last night that the Chairman of the Independent Media Commission has written to the government saying he doesn't wish to be considered for a second term when his current mandate runs out tomorrow, 17 October 2014.

Rod Mac-Johnson told Politico last night that he was stepping down at the end of his three-year mandate but refused to be drawn on any further details.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi.

The chairman of the Pujehun District Council has kept up his attacks on the District Health Management Team accusing them of "playing games with the lives of residents of Pujehun district".

Sadiq Sillah told an Ebola task force meeting, a week after announcing he was taking over the leadership of the group, that  "health workers at peripheral health units are not treating their work with seriousness", because they leave the units unattended "to do private business, totally un-related to the Ebola virus disease."

President Ernest Bai Koroma yesterday assured the visiting joint US-Norwegian delegation that his country would not "export" Ebola to any other country, according to a newsfeed from the State House Communication Unit.

Meeting at State House with the delegation which included the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Rajiv Shaw and Norwegian foreign minister, Borge Brende, the president said Ebola was not something anybody wanted, noting that it was a global issue.