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By Mohamed T Massaquoi
Pujehun district may have declared itself Ebola-free but the authorities are considering a hard line approach against the Member of Parliament for Constituency 89 in the district for flouting nationwide bye-laws aimed at stopping the spread of the deadly virus.
The body coordinating the local Ebola response summoned the MP, Dickson Momoh Rogers, to answer to allegations that he violated the bye-laws by organising a public gathering in his constituency over the Christmas period.

Mustapha Kamara Jnr & Jenneh Braima

By Mohamed T Massaquoi
Local Government Minister Diana Konomanie last week commended the people of Pujehun after the district emerged the first in the country to record zero new Ebola infection in 42 days. But she also warned against complacency.
According to World Health Organization (WHO) regulations, a country can only be declared free of an Ebola outbreak after 42 days without a new case. With 31 confirmed cases, Pujehun ranks 13 among the 14 districts in the country. It recorded its last case on November 26.

President Koroma

Sierra Leone has cancelled all celebrations marking Christmas 2014 and New Year 2015.

Erik Lundblad, IFRC Team Leader

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Action-aid Executive Director presenting learning material in Njaiama Nimikoro Chiefdom in Kono

By Mustapha Sesay

By Bampia James Bundu

General Manager at the Sierra Leone Airports Authority has assured the public that to date, there has not been a single Ebola case detected at the country’s main and only operational airport in Lungi.

John Sesay told journalists at the airport that since the outbreak a lot of measures had been put in place, and assured that they would ensure the “airport does not export the Ebola virus disease to any other country in the world”.