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Month: September 2015

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NEWS FLASH : MCC approves $44. 4 million for Sierra Leone Theshold Program

September 17, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States, H.E. Bockarie Kortu Stevens,  has just broken this good news to COCORIOKO. The Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge […]

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President Ernest Koroma visits, consoles and assures flood victims

September 17, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

President Ernest Bai Koroma earlier today met  with an “expanded” cabinet to further assess the situation of yesterday’s flooding in Freetown and provided  guidelines on the way forward in terms […]

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Sierra Leone Police Chief addresses pertinent issues

September 17, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Sierra Leone Police Force continues to play a crucial role in Sierra Leone’s growth trajectory from the perspective of providing national security. In the last couple of years, […]

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UN SRSG urges support for tracing and return of Yazidi girls captured by ISIL

September 17, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  (New York, 17 September 2015) United Nations SpecialRepresentative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict today met in Germany with two girls from the Yazidi community who had […]

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Deforestation: Facts, Causes & Effects

September 17, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

by Alina Bradford, Live Science Contributor Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. An estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million […]

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Cry Freetown, a city pushed to catastrophe

September 17, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Titus Boye-Thompson Communications Consultant   Freetown floods, the rains cry down torrents and the city is left in disarray. The blame game started as soon as news of the […]

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Sierra Leone’s First Lady Challenges Religious & Traditional Leaders to End Early Marriage & Teenage Pregnancy

September 17, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    By Amadu Lamrana Bah   Sierra Leone’s First Lady, Sia Nyama-Koroma, has challenged Paramount Chiefs and Religious leaders to break the cycle of teenage pregnancy and early marriage […]

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ISHA JOHANSEN AND THE KIDS

September 17, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

September 13, 2015 near Hastings, Sierra Leone   Weekend SLFA NEWS-DAWN OF A NEW ERA: THE MAGIC OF CHILDREN. Driving home from the SLFA Secretariat in Kingtom last Friday evening, […]

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Government Statement on heavy flooding and attendant deaths

September 16, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  PRESS RELEASE GOVERNMENT REGRETS TO INFORM THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT THE CONTINUOUS HEAVY RAIN DURING THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS HAS RESULTED IN SEVERE FLOODING IN PARTS OF THE […]

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How heavy flooding devastating other cities across African continent

September 16, 2015 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

we bring you a FLASHBACK of our September 7 news story . The present flooding episodes in Sierra Leone are a repeat performance of what keavy torrential rains and climate […]

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Cocorioko.net, the Cocorioko domain name that was best known to our readers , is back again. The domain is up and running and we are sure this will come as […]

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