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By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Some petty traders in the eastern Kono district have protested against last week’s elections results, describing the entire process as “undemocratic, stage-managed and invalid.”

Outside the polling stations, aggrieved traders in their dozens held on to placards with inscriptions “no elections without peace! Peace before elections!” But their calls were ignored and the OSD was called in to disperse them and warn them against coming anywhere beyond one hundred metres from the polling stations.

President Koroma

The President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma has just made a minor reshuffle in his government.

David Tam-Baryoh

Sierra Leone's Independent Media Commission (IMC) has slammed a two-month ban on what is arguably the country's most widely-listened-to radio programme, MONOLOGUE.

WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

A spokesman in the ministry of information, Abdulai Bayraytay says government cannot ask the World Health Organization to change the way it reports fatalities from the Ebola outbreak in the country.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

Police in the southern city of Bo say they have intercepted 53 bales of mosquito bednets stolen in Pujehun, Bo and Kambia districts.

The nets were being distributed to people across the country by the ministry of health to help combat malaria.

The UN world health organization says four more patients have been discharged from the Ebola treatment centres in the eastern district town of Kenema, bringing the number of discharged patients to 23.

The Ebola virus, which causes severe haemorrhaging and can kill up to 90 per cent of those infected, is spread by direct contact with the blood and body fluids of infected animals or people.

By Bampia James Bundu

Education for All Sierra Leone coalition, (EFA-SL), in collaboration with Western Area Budget Education and Advocacy Network (WABEAN), and support from Action Aid International, has urged the government to invest more in education to achieve quality.