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THE EXODUS TO IRAQ

September 10, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  First_Name:  Cillaty Last_Name:  Daboh Address:  Wunde Gboyama City:  Gboyama State:  Sierra Leone/USA Comments:  I am not against anyone looking for greener pastures niether do I fault  the govt for […]

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BEREWA’S OLIVE BRANCH FAILS TO CONTROL RIFT IN SLPP

September 10, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Saturday September 10, 2005 The acrimony in the ruling SLPP remained yesterday, almost a week after the  party’s controversial National Delegates Convention in Makeni where Vice-President Solomon Berewa was […]

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SUCCESSION WORRIES NOW EASED, SLPP MULLS PROBLEM OF BEREWA’S RUNNING MATE

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

  Thursday September 8, 2005 With the ship now stilled and the  tempestuous succession dispute hopefully  behind them, the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party  ( SLPP ) is said to […]

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AMBASSADOR LEIGH’S PICTURE RESONATED BEYOND BORDERS OF SIERRA LEONE

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

  Wednesday  September 7, 2005 Even in the agony of defeat, one of Sierra Leone’s most eloquent and  outspoken  men, former Amnassador John Ernest Leigh, made a stirring and powerful […]

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SLPP Convention fall outs continue : Banda-Thomas, Toesman, J.B Dauda ousted in surprising cabinet reshuffle

September 6, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 Tuesday September 6, 2005 John Oponjo Benjamin , a one-time Chairman of the National Unity Party ( NUP ) , has been nominated as Sierra Leone’s new Minister of Finance […]

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JOHN BENJAMIN COMES INTO SLPP CABINET AS FINANCE MINISTER : BANDA-THOMAS , TOESMAN , J.B.DAUDA SACKED IN SNAP CABINET RESHUFFLE

September 6, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

JOHN BENJAMIN COMES INTO SLPP CABINET AS FINANCE MINISTER : BANDA-THOMAS , TOESMAN , J.B.DAUDA SACKED IN SNAP CABINET RESHUFFLE Tuesday September 6, 2005 John Oponjo Benjamin , a one-time […]

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Ernest Koroma extends the olive branch to dissident elements of the APC

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

  Tuesday September 5, 2005 By Soriba Kalokoh reporting from Port Loko Precisely at 3: 45am Sunday morning, Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma was proclaimed the new Presidential candidate for the […]

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KABBAH ENTRUSTED MUCH CONFIDENCE IN ME TO BE HIS SUCCESSOR—V-P BEREWA

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

  Tuesday September 5,2005 Tamba Borbor reports The National Delegates  Conference of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) started Saturday 3rd September at the Makeni Teachers College Conference Hall. Delegates were seen jostling […]

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President Kabbah addresses the SLPP Delegates Conference in Makeni

September 4, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT AT THE SLPP DELEGATES CONFERENCE ON SATURDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2005 MR. CHAIRMAN, MR. VICE-PRESIDENT, CHAIRMAN OF THE PARTY, MEMBERS OF THE SLPP, MEMBERS OF […]

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SIERRA LEONE: PARTY POLITICS AND FRAGMENTATION

September 4, 2005 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Joseph S. Sherman, Washington, DC   It has been an eventful year for party politics in Sierra Leone.  Splits, infighting and dissension have been the order of the day […]

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  By Sampson Cole Sunday July 18, 2004 At the Special Court the statement of the second Prosecution witness in the RUF trial, read by a member of the Prosecution, […]

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