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By Bampia James Bundu

With funds from the Chief Executive Officer of Transnational, Adonis Aboud, local journalist Mohamed Murtala Kamara has pioneered the construction of a Le15 million borehole project at the Calaba Town community.

Presenting the water well to the community, Kamara explained that he had decided to pioneer the construction project in the Calaba Town community because “I grew up in Calaba Town and the people in this community raised me up. I think I have to give back to them one way or the other.”

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

Chief Executive Officer of the nongovernmental organisation Hands Empowering the Less Privileged (HELP/SL) has donated one 5.5kva generator to the management of Radio Wanjei in Pujehun.

Siaffa Jobson Momoh Jr. told Politico that the generator, worth Le 5 million should be used to provide power supply to the radio station. He said it was their responsibility to help a community-owned property as the local broadcaster.

By Mustapha Kamara 

Women Rise Up Against Ebola, a local nongovernmental organisation, has urged government to allow women a 30% inclusion in the fight to end Ebola, the haemorrhagic fever that has claimed over 1,500 lives in the country.

Founder, Elizabeth Mans, said at the official launch of the group in Freetown that “women have a great role to play if the country is to break the chain of transmission and stop the spread of the disease”.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

As the world commemorates World Aids Day yesterday, the Executive Director of UN Population Fund has assured that they will conquer the HIV virus by 2030.

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin said HIV/AIDS “has been with us for more than 30 years”, adding the world had moved beyond “the early devastation wreaked by AIDS and scored many successes.”

By Mabinty Kamara

Health management chairman at the Kuntholoh community in the east of Freetown has called on government and partners to support them construct an Ebola holding centre at the Approved School playfield.

Chernor Allieu Mansaray said the construction was a community initiative approved by the World Health Organisation and other concerned groups after they found out that cases of the Ebola Virus Disease were on the increase in the locality, making it one of the hotspots in the Western Area.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Health workers in the eastern Kono district, nurses in particular, have laid down their tools over the “non-payment of their October month health hazard risk allowances.”

They told Politico that they would go for work but vowed “not to touch any sick patient until the issue of payment of their backlog allowances is addressed. We put our lives and those of our families at risk in the fight against Ebola.”

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Residents of Old Maima and Tongoro towns in Tankoro Chiefdom, Kono District have accused district health workers of dumping into their communities a huge pile of waste associated with the treatment of Ebola virus disease.