The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has airlifted more than 16 tons of medical supplies and emergency equipment to Monrovia to step up Liberia's Ebola response.
Aviation operatives trained in border screening
By Bampia James Bundu
In collaboration with Sierra Leone Civil Aviation Authority and USA Centres for Disease Control, the Sierra Leone Airports Authority has completed a day’s training on primary and secondary screening procedures on Ebola Virus Disease.
WHO medic tests Ebola positive as Briton evacuated
RAF plane evacuating Briton
A Senegalese epidemiologist has become the first World Health Organisation workers to test positive for the deadly Ebola Virus Disease wreaking havoc in West Africa.
The unnamed official was based in Kailahun district tracing Ebola cases.
Maada Bio donates 300 bags to Ebola victims
Maada Bio
By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema
The presidential flag-bearer of the opposition SLPP party has donated 300 bags of rice to victims of Ebola in Bo, Kenema and Kailahun districts.
US$ 23 million for education
By Crispina Cummings
Parliament, on 19 August 2014, ratified a grant agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone and the International Development Association (IDA), the administrators of Global Partnership for Education Fund.
Diana Konomanyi urged to keep her promises
By Septimus Senessie in Kono.
A prominent women's leader in the Fiama Chiefdom of the eastern district of Kono has called on Local Government Minister, Diana Finda Konomayi to build the boarding school facilities she promised the chiefdom during her campaign for the bye-election in 2012 to become District Council Chairman.
