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By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Madingo Jamma’t in Freetown has yesterday received its own share of the pecuniary legacy of late former president Tejan Kabbah who died at his Juba residence in Freetown on March 13 this year.

Family lawyer, Alhaji Amadu Deen Tejan-Sie, said Kabbah had dedicated 5% of his wealth to his brothers, sisters, his longest serving staff and the Madingo Islamic organisation at Magazine Cut, east of Freetown.

By Bampia James Bundu

Stakeholders in the northern town of Lunsar have warned a local radio station to stop “reckless journalism and avoid fanning the flames of discord in the community”.

The community leaders of Marampa chiefdom claimed that they had to stop the Radio Lunsar,which broadcast talk show programmes at weekends, to stop attacking personalities of people in the community.

By Mustapha Kamara

Handicap International, a local non-governmental organisation in Sierra Leone, has called on the government to “pay special attention to Persons With Disabilities, PWDs, and protect them against the deadly Ebola virus”.

In an interview with Politico, its Social Inclusion and Rights Coordinator, Amanda Crookes, said that many disabledpeople in the country were living in the slums, adding that that had made them “two times vulnerable to contracting the disease than other citizens because of their situation”.

By Crispina Cummings

Head of Mano Koya, a community in Sierra Leone’s Western Rural District, has expressed frustration, disappointment while blaming Ebola related deaths on the slow response of the Ebola Emergency Operations Center.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Constituency 107, which covers part of the slums at Kroobay in central Freetown, Sunday 28 September, 2014 witnessed its first sensitisation campaign since the outbreak of Ebola virus in May that has killed over 500 people.

Chairman for the governing All Peoples’ Congress in the area, Mohamed Wusu Conteh, told a gathering at Lightfoot Boston Street that their member of parliament, Osho Williams, had traveled abroad to seek better medication which had caused a slight delay for the campaigns to kick off as planned.

By Mustapha Kamara

After an assessment of the Freetown International Airport, Kenya Airways is to resume operations to Sierra Leone, five weeks since the east African carrier suspended flights to the country due to Ebola.

General Manager of the Sierra Leone Airports Authority, John Sesay, said the airlines had made the decision after a thorough consideration with the Kenyan government, adding that they had stopped operations in the country because they were forced by the Kenyan government to do so.