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By Mustapha Sesay

A group of Ebola survivors in the Waterloo Lumpa community over the week end refused to partake in an Ebola sensitization programme in protest against the organizers` failure to pay them for it.

The programme was organized by the children organization, Kids Advocacy Network (KAN), and it was part of their ongoing campaign against stigmatization of survivors and orphans of the deadly viral disease.

Chinese Centre for Disease Control (CDC), a team of medical experts working in Sierra Leone since the outbreak of Ebola last year, seems to be tightening its strategies against the deadly disease in the country.

At a meeting to discuss new plans and approaches on how to give the disease a final kick out of the country, the CDC head, Dr. Yin Zundong, singled out reviewing of the Ebola surveillance system in communities like Kossoh Town, Jui and Grafton in outer Freetown as the most effective method of tackling Ebola.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

One of the accused persons in the on-going trial at the Court Martial presided over by Judge Advocate Otto During has, prior to the commencement of last Wednesday`s proceedings, openly complained in court that he was ill.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Some political and civil rights activists in Kono, eastern Sierra Leone, have frowned at a move by the district council chairman distancing himself from a position paper released by councilors last month condemning the expulsion of Chief Samuel Sam Sumana from the governing All Peoples Congress (APC) party.

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr 

Don Bosco Fambul, a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Sierra Leone, has reconciled 45 Ebola orphans with other members of their families.

The children, who lost their parents to the viral epidemic which broke out in the country almost a year ago, were released from the NGO’s Interim Care Center (ICC) over the weekend.

By Mustapha Kamara Jnr.

Just days before schools are re-opened, the head of the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC), Retired Major Alfred Palo Conteh, has said schools in communities that were still recording new confirmed Ebola cases would not be allowed to re-open.

The sacking of Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has generated a lot of attention and talking points both within and outside the country. Civil society groups have generally criticized the move. Well now Kandeh Yumkella who is tipped to run for president in the next election has added his voice to the issue. He arrived in the country over the weekend and granted Politico an exclusive interview.

Politico: What’s your take on the current constitutional row in Sierra Leone regarding the sacking of the country’s Vice President?