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Hilton Fyle breaks silence and exposes SLPP again

January 27, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Malady of The S.L.P.P. – By Hilton E. Fyle –Culled from the SIERRA LEONE’S CRAZY POLITICS blogspot A LITTLE OVER THREE YEARS AGO, FORMER BBC BROADCASTER AND JOURNALIST IN SIERRA […]

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Part 2 : Three faces of Bai Bureh : The national hero of Sierra Leone

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

PART 2 As the years went by I began to search for an actual photograph, convinced that one had to exist somewhere. When the internet appeared in the 1980’s, my […]

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Deputy Health Minister Madina Rahman leaves for New York to attend UNFPA meeting

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Deputy Minister of Health, Hon. Madina Rahman, will leave Freetown today for the United States to  participate in a  side meeting of the UN Populations Fund  ( UNFPA ) at […]

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Dr Samura Kamara, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs on Change and Prosperity

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 FROM INSIGHT MAGAZINE ​I caught up with Dr Samura Kamara, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in London, the morning after his return from the India-Africa Summit […]

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That chaotic SLPP meeting broken up by the London Police : An eye-witness expresses outrage

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

London Metropolitan Police had to be summoned to intervene and break up a  Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP)  meeting in the United Kingdom over the weekend. A social media […]

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Sierra Leone’s hate politics alarmingly spreads in the diaspora

January 26, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU During the last United Nations General Assembly, the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at the UN  witnessed such an  intense war of words, wits , slogans, ill-will and verbal […]

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Commonwealth committed to supporting Sierra Leone’s economic recovery by improving its export packaging capacity

January 25, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Bridget Chiedu Onochie, Abuja A NATIONAL consultation last Thursday kicked off in Sierra Leone to help the country’s small and medium enterprises reach new export markets. The talk also aimed […]

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National Union of Students embarks on nation-wide anti-violence campaign

January 25, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Bearing in mind that the abnormal upsurge in violence among young people ranks high among the most serious social problems with which we, as a nation, have to contend, the […]

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SLPP Chaos in the UK prompts London Police intervention

January 25, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

London Police have reportedly intervened after a section of the SLPP “Paopa” rudely interrupted a meeting organized by supporters of Kandeh Yumkelah in London. Details of the fracas are still […]

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At 94, Minnesota eye doctor heads to Africa to help Ebola survivors

January 25, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Dr. Lowell Gess headed back to Sierra Leone this month. — DAVID JOLES, Star Tribune By JEAN HOPFENSPERGER , STAR TRIBUNE  January 23, 2016 – 10:55 AM   A 94-year-old Minnesota doctor […]

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  • More drama in Sierra Leone as Chief Justice orders the arrest of former Justice Minister JFK for yesterday’s tense exchanges at the Supreme Court
  • Another big political drama in Sierra Leone as APC and Supreme Court clash over disputed Constitutional Amendment Bill
  • When development finance becomes a leverage
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