President Koroma
The President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma has just made a minor reshuffle in his government.
How and why Sierra Leone's "Monologue" was banned
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.
Sierra Leone gov’t and WHO conflict over Ebola figures
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.
Pujehun intercepts stolen bed nets
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.
More Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone
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.
Sierra Leone gov’t urged to invest in education
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.
Landowners complain again
By Bampia James Bundu
Landowners in Kafe Simiria Chiefdom, Tonkolili district have expressed frustrations over the closure by the ministry of mines of gold mining company, Transcend International, for the past seven months.
Community elders, youth groups, together with the chiefdom speaker and a chief of Masingbi town converged on State House in Freetown to express their frustration against the removal of the gold miner the locality.
