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By Mabinty Kamara

Concern Worldwide, an international charity which played an active part in the national Ebola response effort, has officially handed over the Kingtom Ebola cemetery to the Freetown City Council (FCC).

Kingtom is located in the west end of Freetown.

By Mohamed Massaquoi

Police in the Southern district of Pujehun are currently investigating a case involving an alleged child sexual abuse.

The case involves an eight year old girl who reportedly fell ill after she was abused.

Sheku Samura, Crime Officer at the Pujehun main district police division headquarters, told Politico that the matter was reported on February 2.

By Alhaji Komba 

Mercury International, the leading sports betting and lottery company in Sierra Leone, has through its Charitable Foundation donated 75 million leones worth of training manuals and other equipment to the Sierra Leone Legal Aid Board.

By Kemo Cham

Sierra Leone has been included in the United States’ President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), the White House has announced.

The country was named on Monday alongside Cote D’Ivoire and Cameroon to be part of the US government’s program that seeks to eliminate the deadly parasitic disease that accounts for most global deaths to illness.

Malaria is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan called plasmodium. The parasite is transmitted by the mosquito.

By Mustapha Sesay

After the ground breaking creative work of Kelvin Doe, who succeeded in creating his own radio station, the country has recorded more creative youngsters, Mahmoud Javombo, the Program Director of Innovate Salone, has said.

By Umaru Fofana

Lecturers at polytechnics and teacher training colleges throughout Sierra Leone yesterday started an indefinite stay-at-home strike over pay and conditions, disrupting classes for thousands of students in Freetown, Makeni, Kenema and Port Loko. However, following a meeting with education minister Dr Minkailu Bah, the striking lecturers agreed to suspend their action amid assurances by government to meet their demand.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Civil societies and environmentalists in the Kono District, east of Sierra Leone, have raised alarm over a proliferation of town mining which has left part of Tankoro Chiefdom defaced.

Vegetable crops, private homes and other landmarks in the affected areas have either been destroyed or are under threat of annihilation by a mining practice that involved some highly placed community stakeholders, environmental officials in the diamond rich district have alleged.