Madina Rahman, Dep. Min of Health
By Crispina Cummings
Sierra Leone immigration to go biometric
Alusine Joaque, Ag. Immigrations director
By Mustapha Kamara
Social mobilisation to defeat Ebola in Sierra Leone
By Bampia Bundu & Allieu Sahid Tunkara
Information minister, Alpha Khanu says Ebola would only continue to be a problem if communities are not involved in the fight, noting that Ebola prevention is 10% medication and 90% social mobilisation.
“We have lost about 420 compatriots while others are still hospitalised since the outbreak of Ebola in the country,” he told an emergency press briefing at the conference hall of the ministry of information.
Concerns over Ebola-affected children
By Mustapha Kamara
A local non-governmental organisation in Sierra Leone has expressed concern over the rising numbers of children in quarantined homes, saying “very little attention is being given to them”.
Abdulai Swaray, executive director for Pekin to Pekin, Friday told journalists in Freetown that they had officially pleaded with the government to pay more attention to those children in quarantined homes across the country.
Sierra Leone farmers crushed by Ebola
Mary Hawa John-Sao
The Vice President of the National Farmers' Federation says 75% of those killed by Ebola in Sierra Leone are farmers in especially Kailahun and Kenema districts, the two hardest-hit areas.
Sierra Leone MPs under fire over Ebola money
By Septimus Senessie in Kono.
In Kono, Paramount Chiefs, the Anti-Corruption Commission, the Koidu Council and civil society organisations have blasted their Members of Parliament over the Le 63 million given to each of them by the state to enable them respond to the Ebola outbreak.
During the District Ebola Task Force Meeting in Koidu on Monday, they accused the MPs of "failing" their constituents in the fight against the disease.
Socfin van caught with corpse in Sierra Leone
By Mohamed Massaquoi
An ambulance belonging to the SOCFIN agricultural company has been intercepted at an Ebola check point at Bendu Junction in the Malen chiefdom in Pujehun transporting a dead body from Bo district.
This was confirmed by the district security coordinator, the Office of National Security, district police officer, the military, civil society, the district council chairman and other stakeholders in Pujehun.
