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Concerned citizens in New Jersey want Maada Bio arrested and charged with terroristic threats

August 16, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Friday August 16, 2005   Some members of the Concerned Citizens for the Restoration of Democracy in Sierra Leone–A powerful lobbying group that helped to build international concensus for  […]

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PETROL PRICE SHOOTS UP IN SIERRA LEONE

August 15, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Monday August 15, 2005 Freetown was slapped with another increase in the price of petrol over the weekend, according to reports coming in from the Sierra Leone capital. A […]

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IS THE OPPOSITION DYING IN SIERRA LEONE ?

August 14, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Posted by Saloneman2 on August 14, 2005 at 11:01:25: In democratic dispensations, political parties function as channels through which the citizenry exercises its salient right to plurality. Political parties […]

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Attorney General approves inquest into Editor’s death

August 11, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Thursday August 11, 2005 Tamba Borbor reports from Freetown The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Fred Carew has disclosed giving instructions for an inquest to be held into […]

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Protect the African child from sexual abuse and ravishment : Part 2

August 8, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  EDITORIAL PROTECT THE AFRICAN GIRL CHILD FROM SEXUAL ABUSE AND RAVISHMENT : PART 2 Monday August 8, 2005 As seasoned advocates against violence on women, we  wish to continue […]

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Protect the African girl child from sexual abuse and ravishment

August 7, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    EDITORIAL PROTECT THE AFRICAN GIRL CHILD FROM SEXUAL ABUSE , RAVISHMENT AND MUTILATION : PART 1  A very disturbing trend is thriving  in Africa, tied to the culture of impunity permeating […]

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SLAJ retains Lawyer to write for inquest into Editor’s death

August 7, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Sunday August 7, 2005 Tamba Borbor reports from Freetown Lawyer J.B. Jenkins-Johnston has on the request of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) written to the Attorney General […]

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SLAJ MAKES MOVES TO HAVE YANSANEH’S ALLEGED ATTACKERS EXTRADICTED FROM ENGLAND

August 5, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    Friday August 8, 2005 The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists ( SLAJ ) has set into motion moves designed to extradict from Britain the three people who allegedly […]

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POLICE SUPERINTENDENT SUSPENDED FOR FAILURE TO INVESTIGATE DECEASED JOURNALIST’S COMPLAINT

August 3, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Wednesday August 3, 2005 Freetown was taken by relief  yesterday of the suspension  of Superintendent Kalia Sesay of the Central Police Station who woefully failed to investigate the assault […]

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SIERRA LEONE IS TIRED OF TIRED LEADERSHIP

August 3, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Wednesday August 3, 2005 When a couple of weeks ago the President of Sierra Leone, Ahmed Tejan-Kabba, announced to the people of Portloko, Sierra Leone, that he was tired […]

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