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By Mustapha Sesay

BBC Media Action in Sierra Leone, an independent charity and the only international development arm of the BBC, has designed a radio drama and discussion programme aimed at helping people better understand women and entitlements.

The programme, ‘Leh Wi Know’, a Krio statement meaning ‘let us know’, would focus on challenges women and girls faced as they went about their day-to-day activities within various communities in the country.

Mohamed lying outside the Hospital

By Mohamed Vandi in Kenema

A young man with a swollen stomach, recently released from prison on medical advice,has been left in the open, outside the Kenema Government Hospital.

Ibrahim Sankoh

Ibrahim Sankoh is a four-year-old boy who has for weeks been sitting in a ward at the Port Loko Government Hospital. He has lost both his parents and all his siblings to Ebola. He got infected himself but recovered. He has gone blind in what doctors say is as a direct result of the viral infection.

By Mustapha Kamara jnr

A community nurse at the Kroo Bay, one of the biggest slums in Freetown, has warned of a sharp rise in the number of teenage pregnancies within the last few months in the community.

Zainab Barry told Politico on Tuesday that the Kroo Bay Community Health centre was recording at least fifteen cases in a month.

“I have been working here for the past two years, but I realized that there has been an increase in the number of teenage girls getting pregnant,” Nurse Barry said.

By Jenneh Brima

Politico newspaper has launched a campaign to save a hopeless young Ebola survivor, Ibraim Sankoh. The 4-year-old boy is currently languishing in a ward in the Port Loko Government Hospital in the northern Sierra Leonean Port Loko District, where he has been waiting for what destiny holds for him.

Sankoh lost his parents and siblings to the virus which left him totally blind on one of his eyes after recovering from the disease.

African Minerals Limited (AML), the leading iron ore miner in Sierra Leone, has gone broke.

The company which owns 75 percent of the Tonkolili Iron Ore Project in the north of the country said Tuesday it was unable to meet debt commitment in relation to a $400m convertible bond.

“Under the terms of the Bond, the biannual coupon payment of $17m is due on 10 February 2015. The Company advises it has insufficient funds to meet this payment, and it is unlikely that such a payment will be made in the near future,” AML said in a statement published on its website.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The Director of Information and Communications Technology of the University of Sierra Leone has disclosed that the university has opened over six thousand email accounts for registered students.