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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The 4^th accused at the court martial trying 13 soldiers for alleged mutiny has denied meeting his fellow accused persons to plan the mutiny.

By Crispina Lois Taylor

An opposition Member of Parliament representing constituency 002 in the Kailahun district, Mustapha Brima, has noted that the president failed to acknowledge the role of the media as he thanked key players in the fight against the Ebola epidemic so far.

Over six villages in Sierra Leone’s Western Rural District, around Konta Line, have benefited from a solar energy project, powered by the Barefoot Women Association with support from the ministry of energy.

The Barefoot Women Solar Project, which aims at enhancing rural electrification, and comprises only rural women, commissioned and handed over the installed household solar lights to the villages last week.

The first phase of the ongoing installation of fiber optic cable under the Economic Community of West African States Regional Backbone Infrastructure and e-Governance Programme (ECOWAN) took a major leap in Sierra Leone last Friday with the blowing of the first cable into the pipe.

The process is technically called cable jetting and it is basically the installation of the cables in the ducts in the pipes leading to the intended destination.

By Mustapha Sesay

Magistrate Binneh Kamara of Ross Road Court no. 1 in Freetown says he will commit to high court a case against 13 people accused of committing murder at Waterloo last September.

Magistrate Kamara said Tuesday that he lacked the jurisdictional power to grant the accused persons bail or discharge and acquit them.

The magistrate however urged the prosecution team to bring in more witnesses to prove their case, as “the liberties of thirteen citizens were at stake.”

Sierra Leones’s High Commissioner to The Gambia, Soulayman Daramy, has delivered a special letter from President Ernest Bai Koroma to the leader of The Gambia Yayah Jammeh at State House in Banjul in which Koroma strongly condemned the December 30^th 2014 attack on that country's presidential palace.

In the letter, Koroma praised Jammeh's “transformative achievement over the years that have put The Gambia on the map.”

By Crispina Taylor

Member of Parliament for constituency 067 in Bo, Sualiho Koroma, has said in parliament that Sierra Leone’s former minister of Health and Sanitation, Miatta Kargbo, should apologize to the nation for failing to professionally handle the Ebola crisis when it initially broke out in the country.