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Ebola : Dr. Victor Willoughby passes away

December 18, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Dr. Victor Willoughby ,  one of the finest physicians in Sierra Leone, succumbed to the Ebola virus early this morning. He is the 11th doctor to have died from this […]

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“We Must be in This Together” – President Koroma

December 18, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By State House Communications Unit President Ernest Bai Koroma over the past few days had been preoccupied with mobilizing community involvement especially in the Western Area, engaging traditional and […]

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Ban Ki-Moon sets off for West Africa

December 18, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

17 December 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced he will leave today for the countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak “to show my solidarity with those affected and urge even greater […]

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Ambassador Conteh signs $ 30 million World Bank grant for Sierra Leone

December 18, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Ambassador Ibrahim S. Conteh, the Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’Affaires a.i.  of the Sierra Leone Embassy  to the United States in Washington D.C.,  today signed a World Bank […]

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South Sudan’s Leaders Must Act Now to End Suffering

December 17, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Zainab Hawa Bangura, Adama Dieng, Jennifer Welsh and Leila Zerrougui *   Three years ago, in July 2011, the world celebrated the birth of South Sudan, the world’s newest […]

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Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Ethiopia brings relief to quarantined homes in the Kaffu Bullom Chiefdom

December 17, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union ( AU ),  H.E. Osman Keh-Kamara,  has responded to President Ernest Koroma’s  clarion  call to […]

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CDC Chief Impressed with President Koroma

December 17, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

CDC Chief Impressed with President Koroma By State House Communications Unit Director for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States Dr Tom Frieden has described the “Western […]

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Alpha Kanu to Provide over 1000 Bags of Rice for Effective Quarantining in Port Loko

December 17, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Hassan BruzNorthern Bureau Chief  Who else is more determined or has actually demonstrated willingness to have the Ebola virus eradicated from the Northern District of Port Loko than the […]

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President Koroma’s nation-wide address on Ebola protocols during this year’s Christmas festivities

December 17, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR ERNEST BAI KOROMA RESTRICTION ON MOVEMENT BETWEEN DISTRICTS DURING CHRISTMAS PERIOD Fellow Sierra Leoneans, since our country registered it first case of Ebola […]

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Eddie Turay screams with tears at Birmingham

December 17, 2014 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Sorie Sudan Sesay- Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom was unable to control his emotion as he shed tears in front of a jam-packed school assembly while […]

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Sierra Leoneans in the United States of America joined the Embassy of Sierra Leone Sunday April 27th, 2014 to celebrate their Country’s fifty Third (53rd) independent Anniversary in a different […]

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  By Kadrie Koroma Freetown, Nov. 9, 015 (MOHS) – The Ministry of Health and Sanitation Directorate of Nursing Services has organized a week long workshop on the development of […]

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CULLED FROM WE YONE PRESS By Musa Kimbo Reliable information reaching We Yone suggests some ill-will people have vandalized a Sierra Leone Road Transport Corporation bus with registration number AKU […]

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Transcript of the Secretary-General’s Joint Press Conference with President of Sierra Leone

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March 5, 2014 by Resident Coordinator’s Office Freetown, 5 March 2014 – It is a great honour and pleasure for me to be back in Sierra Leone for the second time as Secretary-General […]

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