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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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  • 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
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  John Baimba Sesay-Freetown Chairing an inaugural meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Decentralization, Tuesday 19th May at his Tower Hill Office, Vice President of Sierra Leone, Ambassador Victor Bockarie […]

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  By: Jonathan Abass Kamara The College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) was established in 1988 in Sierra Leone to train medical doctors locally at the undergraduate level, […]

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Sierra Leone Health Pride Achieves Second Annual Conference in Sierra Leone

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  SANDRA JIMINEZ By: Betty B. Long, Clinical Nurse Specialist and Adjunt Professor at Pace and Long Island Universities   The Sa Leone Health Pride, consisting of a high powerful […]

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By Moses A. Kargbo Sierra Leone’s first-ever accountability forum that focuses on national and collective accountability for enforcing improved service delivery is currently underway in Freetown. The three-day forum dubbed […]

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