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The Key to Combating Violent Extremism? Prevention

January 19, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

UN Photo/Loey Felipe The Secretary-General presented today, 15 January 2016, his Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism (PVE) to the UN General Assembly. Just this week, terrorist attacks in Turkey, […]

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Women, Peace and Security – Promoting Sustainable Peace

January 19, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

31 October 2000, the Security Council adopted a landmark resolution on women’s participation in peace processes. Last year, the United Nations took stock of how successfully, or not, the historic […]

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Denis Bio’s Funeral: a Reflection to Sierra Leonean Christian Community

January 19, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Sanpha Sesay January 15, 2016: Dallas Texas. It was the end of another long, tiring and freezing day on Saturday, January 9th when Sierra Leoneans at large filed […]

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Sa. Leone President Ernest Koroma says UN Security Council poorer without African representation in the Permanent Category

January 17, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s President , Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, has said that the United Nations Security Council is poorer without the representation of Africa in the Permanent Category. President Koroma made […]

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Ambassador Osman Foday Yansaneh bids Ghana’s President Mahama farewell

January 17, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary His Excellency Osman Foday Yansaneh was at Flagstaff House, Accra last week to bid farewell to the President of the Republic of Ghana , His Excellency […]

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After he completes his term, Sierra Leoneans will miss President Ernest Koroma with tears

January 17, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : MY passion for reading newspapers knows no bounds. I do not receive newspapers from Sierra Leone alone. I receive newspapers from many other African countries through […]

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Thousands of children still need care and support in wake of Ebola epidemic

January 16, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Photos and videos are available for download here: http://uni.cf/1xZAb39 CONAKRY/MONROVIA/FREETOWN/DAKAR, 14 January 2016 – Nearly 23,000 children who lost one or both parents or their primary caregivers to Ebola in Guinea, […]

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Preserving History via the Sierra Leone Daily Mail

January 16, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Preserving History. On Saturday November 12, 1966 SIERRA Leone and Liberia met in the first leg of the West African Gold Cup at Brookfields Stadium in Freetown. Here is a […]

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President Ernest Koroma’s eight year score card remains impeccable

January 16, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU President Ernest Bai Koroma is the head of state that will be remembered forever by his compatriots because he is the President who has done far more […]

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Day After Ebola Outbreak Is Declared Over, Sierra Leone Reports a Death

January 16, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

DAKAR, Senegal — Just one day after the World Health Organization declared the end to the biggest outbreak of Ebola, a body in Sierra Leonehad tested positive for the virus, […]

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  • True Independence and Freedom can only exist in doing what is right
  • Video : Sierra Leone gains Independence from Britain and the 1961 Royal Visit
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  • There will never be world peace until imperialism is dead : Hands off Ibrahim Traore
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Government and Koidu Holdings in stalemate over workers’ better wages and good working conditions

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UPDATE!!! Uneasy Calm Returns to Central Freetown After Ojeh-Linked Tensions

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Urgent Appeal for Security Intervention We are urgently calling on the Central Police Division to intervene in a violent situation unfolding in the Horton Street and Frederick Street area of […]

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No new Ebola case in Kono as rumored.

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Freetown, Sierra Leone – 5 November 2015:  There is no new Ebola case in Sierra Leone today, day 41 of the countdown to Zero + 42. The countdown continues. An […]

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Comedy of errors at Brookfields Stadium..

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By Kabbie Menday Kunda  : Sierra Leone’s national team, Leone Stars,  played bold , brilliant and immaculate soccer in the first half as an excited President Ernest Koroma and 50,00 […]

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RSLAF CDS Addresses Senior Command

September 2, 2016 0

Culled from the Cocorioko Facebook Forum By Ranger Lieutenant General John E. Milton, Chief of Defense Staff of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces on Tuesday 29th August 2016 […]

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REFLECTIONS ON CHRISTMASES PAST–PART 1 AND 2

March 1, 2024 0

REFLECTIONS ON CHRISTMASES PAST Sierra Leone Bin sweet…….. REFLECTIONS ON CHRISTMASES PAST : PART 1 By Wilfred Kabs-Kanu ( Culled from “MENDAYKUNDA : The unabridged autobiography of a Loko Boy”, […]

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President Bio runs out of scapegoats as his SLPP government faces prospects of international isolation

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President Bio Runs Out Of Scapegoats By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) I know supporters of, and apologists for, the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) love to hate it; but […]

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