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President Koroma leads Sierra Leone’s delegation to African Union Summit

January 27, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone led the country’s delegation to the Twentieth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Summit […]

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UN Special Representative Zainab Bangura Addresses Permanent Representatives Committee Of The African Union

January 24, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

JANUARY 24, 2013 I consider the engagement with African countries, as well as Africa’s regional and sub-regional organizations, as a critical priority for this mandate. I believe that African countries must […]

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President Koroma and Agriculture for prosperity in Sierra Leone

January 24, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

   By John Pa Baimba Sesay: By 2010, during his first term in office as President of Sierra Leone, Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma encouraged the nation, during the Business Bomba […]

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Julius Maada Bio: His Suitability?

January 21, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Amadu Manjamadu Bah :  In spite of all what has been written, said, and done about Julius Maada Bio’s suitability, some individuals still have the illusion that this man […]

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“Government is determined to move on with the Agenda for Prosperity”…President Koroma tells UN

January 15, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

   By State House Communications Unit : Freetown: President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has on 15th January 2013 informed the United Nations Country Assessment Team from New York that government […]

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Ambassador Shekou Touray Officially Introduces New HOC Mr. Alhusine Sesay To Staff Of Sierra Leone Mission In New York

January 14, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  JANUARY 14, 2013   By kabbs kanu The new Head of Chancery at the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, Mr. Alhusine Sesay, was last Friday […]

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NEWS FLASH : NEW CABINET ANNOUNCED

January 5, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Just as COCORIOKO announced yesterday, President Ernest Bai Koroma today  released names of ministers in  his new cabinet. Here is the list so far : PRESIDENT ERNEST BAI KOROMA   […]

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EXCLUSIVE : Ministers Celebrate After Being Re-Appointed By President Ernest Koroma

January 5, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

This is the kind of quick-fire information you will get only in your popular COCORIOKO.  Shortly after the new cabinet list was announced to an anxious nation and diaspora this […]

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Development News : Ambassador Bockarie Stevens propounds on what Sierra Leone stands to benefit from winning the MCC Compact Award

January 2, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Just before Christmas, as  Sierra Leoneans celebrated the successful staging of the landmark Presidential, Legislative and Local Council Elections, good news came that Sierra Leone  has won the United States […]

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Fullah Progressive Union Ushered the New Year in a Spectacular Fundraiser

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By Jacob Sax Conteh, Cocorioko Editor-in-Chief :   On New Year’s Eve, as hundreds of Sierra Leoneans in the Washington, DC metropolitan area clogged area churches, executives of the Fullah […]

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