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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL JOINT PRESS RELEASE : Sierra Leone: New law promotes transparency — Long-Awaited Information Act Could Spur Greater Government Openness

October 29, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL JOINT PRESS RELEASE 29 October 2013 Sierra Leone: New law promotes transparency Long-Awaited Information Act Could Spur Greater Government Openness  The Sierra Leone parliament’s passage of a freedom […]

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Parliament Enacts Freedom of Information Act

October 29, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KWAME YANKSON   Freetown, 29th October, 2013- The Sierra Leone Parliament today enacted into law, the Right to Access Information Act, 2013 otherwise known as, the “Freedom of Information […]

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WHATEVER THEY MAY SAY, PRESIDENT KOROMA REMAINS THE BEST HEAD OF STATE SIERRA LEONE HAS HAD SINCE INDEPENDENCE

October 26, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BY KABS KANU : One thing about our people. In fact, two things. One, we forget easily. Two, there is that despicable spirit of unthankfulness in many of us. We […]

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What is wrong if Sierra Leone’s authorities move to enforce libel laws to curb irresponsible and reckless journalism ?

October 26, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Posted by Cocorioko Newspaper on October 25, 20130 Comment By KABS KANU : Because they had been left to do what they please by a media-tolerant President and government, the media in […]

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Britain seeks ways to work together with President Koroma for the implementation of the Agenda for Prosperity.

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

   FREETOWN: President Ernest Bai Koroma received the British Minister for Africa, Mr. Mark Simmonds (in photo) at State House in Freetown, during a courtesy call. President Koroma thanked the […]

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Alimamy Pepito Koroma and Munda Rogers fired

October 19, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Minister of Works, Housing and Infrastructure, Hon. Alimamy Petito Koroma and the Director General of the Sierra Leone Roads Authority, Munda Rogers have been relieved of their posts with […]

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Charles Taylor Transferred to the UK for the Enforcement of his Sentence

October 16, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Special Court for Sierra Leone Outreach and Public Affairs Office PRESS RELEASE Freetown, Sierra Leone, 15 October 2013 Charles Taylor Transferred to the UK for the Enforcement of his Sentence […]

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Sylvia Blyden enjoys rock star status in Ohio

October 16, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Umaru Jalloh : President Koroma’s Special Executive Assistant Doctor Sylvia Blyden stormed the shores of the Buckeye state of Ohio on a short visit to the Ohio APC Chapter […]

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UN Secretary General’s Statements on The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and World Food Day

October 16, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 U N I T E D   N A T I O N S                                           N A T I O N S   U N I E S   THE SECRETARY-GENERAL — […]

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President Ernest Bai Koroma’s Free Health Care Initiative Gets $18 Million Boost from World Bank & Trust Fund

October 16, 2013 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 The World Bank and the multi- donor trust fund have furthered the second phase of the Reproductive and Child Health Project (RCHP) (Sierra Leone’s Free Health Care Initiative) with additional […]

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  • THE PREMATURE WITHDRAWAL : Evidence now proves that UNIPSIL left unfinished business in Sierra Leone
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President Ernest Koroma to stay on as APC Chairman and Leader after 2018

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  At a mammoth conference with the media in Freetown today, the All People’s Congress ( APC )  Secretary General, Osman Foday Yansaneh  announced the resolutions at the June 1st […]

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The work program of this year’s UN General Assembly

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Acting on the recommendations of its General Committee, the General Assembly this morning adopted the work programme and agenda for its sixty-ninth session, which contained 172 items, and endorsed the […]

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‘Do not joke about the next General Elections’ : APC female M.P. tells Tombo

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Saved by American influence : Part 1

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By Abrahim Alimu Jalloh. MD, USA. Sierra Leone at 45 is still toddling. His Excellency the President, Dr. Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabba’s 45th independence anniversary message to the Nation was […]

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