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By Crispina Cummings

An international non-governmental organisation in Sierra Leone,Don Bosco Fambul, has collaborated with the ministry of social welfare gender and children’s affairs to provide temporary shelter for children affected by the Ebola outbreak.

Recounting their recent activities in the fight against the disease, director, Lothar Wagner, said they had already set up an interim care center at their Fort Street residence in Freetown to accommodate children who had either lost parents to the Ebola disease or had survived the sickness.

By Mustapha Kamara

UN Women yesterday launched its mainstreaming strategy for Sierra Leone’s Ebola Emergency Unit to help address and prevent the further spread of the hemorrhagic Ebola Virus disease in the country.

At the ceremony in Freetown, the UN’s resident coordinator, McLachlan Karr, said that the Ebola outbreak was a global crisis which had killed thousands of people in a short while.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Freetown City Council yesterday handed over the Allen Town Health centre to community authorities after refurbishment.

One of the community elders who chaired the ceremony, Alhassan Kanu, said the facility had collapsed seven years ago “due to neglect by government”.

British army personnel, 85 in number, mostly medics, arrived yesterday in Sierra Leone to respond to the Ebola disease which is spreading thick and fast and wide in the country.

Civilians waved to the troops welcoming them to the country amid scenes that looked like an enactment of the war days when British troops were given a messianic welcome.

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray

There was panic in the northern Koinadugu district, until recently the only Ebola free district, after news of a confirmed case of the deadly virus was reported by a local radio in Kabala on Monday.

This was confirmed by the chairman of the district Ebola taskforce, Dr. Fasineh Samura.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Chairman of the Kono district council was called in for questioning by the police in Freetown on allegations that he “converted food donated by the World Food Programme, WFP, for Ebola victims for selfish benefit.”

Aiah Abdulrahman Koninga was invited at the Criminal Investigations Departmenton Pademba Road after authorities in Freetown were asked to account for 300 bags of rice and an equal number of bags of bulgur they got from WFP.

By Bampia James Bundu

There was commotion yesterday at the Dwazark junction after another clash ensued between commercial bike riders and the Sierra Leone Police, leaving over twenty motor bikes and riders arrested and the park closed.

Police Superintendent, Ambrose Sovula, who spoke to journalists at the scene said the riders had been transporting passengers to and from the Central Business District, CBD, where they had been banned.