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By Crispina Cummings

House Majority Leader, Ibrahim Bundu, MP, on Tuesday asked in parliament how Sierra Leone would manage its relationship with its international friends after the Ebola crisis?

He made this statement after the ratification of a grant agreement between the government of Sierra Leone and International Development Association (IDA) for education.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

MP for Constituency 21 in Kono district, Tamba Entochema Ebba has come under attack from parents and a civil society organisation in his constituency for allegedly "failing to pay the annual Le 5 million scholarship agreement he signed with  the people during the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections which earned him a seat in Parliament.

By Bampia James Bundu

Former chairman of the main opposition SLPP party, John Oponjo Benjamin (JOB) has expressed concern over “the haste with which patients are discharged from Ebola health centres”.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Chief Administrative Officer of the Freetown Metropolitan Police has appealed to the central government to help minimise street-trading in the city.

Speaking to Politico, Superintendent Desmond Marsh said “Government should empower citizens by creating more jobs, more decent markets and free education for girls, to minimise street trading.”

By Mustapha Kamara

Country Representative of the UN World Health Organisation has called on government to “institute an exit screening of all persons at international airports, seaports and other major land crossings".

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has sent in food aid to tens of thousands of people infected with or affected by the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

According to the Country Representative of the agency, Gon Myers they are providing  "full ration including cereal, vegetable oil, super cereal plus - that is the corn-soya blend feeding people with nutritional difficulties".

He said they had intended to feed 28,600 but were currently supporting 35,000.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

A non-family member who benefited from the late President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s will that was made public at his Juba residence in Freetown on Saturday has referred to the gesture as “a reward of loyalty”.

The one-time Minister of Presidential Affairs in the Kabbah administration, Dr. Shekou Sesay, said he worked closely with the late man, adding that their relationship spanned as far back as the early 90s when they both worked at the UNDP in New York.