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By Mabinty Kamara

Diabetes is a killer disease that affects a good number of people in Sierra Leone yet it is being ignored by many as if it does not exist, a campaigner against the disease said recently.

Ms Salome Hydes-Jones, founder of Friends of diabetes Sierra Leone, described diabetes is a chronic lifelong condition which required careful monitoring and control.

By Kemo Cham

The Sierra Leone government has welcomed the decision of the US government to include the West African country into its anti-malaria crusade.

Sierra Leone was named alongside Ivory Coast and Cameroon as new entrants into the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) run by the White House. The PMI seeks to eradicate the parasitic disease in Africa and Aisa.

By Kemo Cham

Female lawyers of Sierra Leone have expressed support for calls for an abortion law, urging the government to pass a revised version of the controversial new abortion Act.

In a statement marking International Women’s Day, the umbrella body representing the country’s female lawyers, the Legal Access through Women Yearning for Equality, Rights and Social Justice (LAWYERS), proffers some recommendations to be included in the Safe Abortion Act 2016 and make it acceptable by all.

By Kemoh Sesay 

Isha Johnsen led Football Association with support from Leocem has commenced its annual FA cup football tournament over the weekend in the northern provincial headquarters town of Makeni.

According to the organizers 190 teams are expected to take part in the tournament.

By Mabinty Kamara

More than sixty patients admitted at the Connaught Hospitalin central Freetown, including nurses, have received food items from a local humanitarian organisation known as Freedom to Feed the Needy.

The charity based mainly in Freetown has a goal to provide  for the needy in the country regardless of race, colour or sex.

The food was provided for wards 1 and 2, the latter being children’s ward. Patients and nurses in the two wards appreciated the move made by the organization to remember those who are sick in the hospital.

Appointed Mayor of Koidu

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Local Government authorities in Kono have wasted no time to replace embattled Mayor Saa Emmerson Lamin just days after he was suspended on allegations of financial and administrative impropriety.

By Umaru Fofana 

The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, has confirmed that 68 cases of measles have been reported in and around Freetown so far this year.

It comes as reports emerge of a similar outbreak in Kono, Bo and Port Loko districts.

The Freetown cases are said to be “epidemiologically linked to cases seen last year” according to laboratory tests which have however not confirmed the genetics.