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Month: May 2016

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State Foreign Minister Mohamed Sesay proposes a new dialogue model towards sustainability of African migration

May 30, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Umaru S. Jah, Information Attaché – Germany The dramatic influx of African migrants to Europe has sparked serious concerns thus prompting European countries to discuss and map out […]

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Kuwait Approves Bumper Fund for Sierra Leone

May 30, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

    M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States In its continuous drive to seek for investment opportunities into the country and funding for the ongoing road […]

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MRU Ambassadors Call For Revitalization of Makona Free Zone Project

May 30, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Ambassadors of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to China have supported calls for the revitalization of the Makona River Free Zone Development Project, which was jointly conceived by the […]

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SLPPNA condemns heinous killing of party member by another party supporter

May 30, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

   WASHINGTON, DC, USA – According to reports reaching the Sierra Leone People’s Party North America Region (SLPPNA), a member of the SLPP, Daddy George, of Segbwema, was stabbed and […]

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Ministry of Political Affairs implores SLPP leadership to bring spiraling violence among its supporters to an end

May 29, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

On Friday 27th May 2016, the Ministry of Political and Public Affairs received  reports about  skirmishes among Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP)  supporters in Kenema.   The incident reportedly started as […]

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Ambassador Ismael Koroma storms New Jersey

May 29, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Sierra Leone’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the African Union , Ambassador Ismael Koroma , who is in the Unite…d States to attend the joint AU And UN Security Council Session […]

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Opinion : Why Maada Bio should be banned from all political activities in Sierra Leone

May 29, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Keketoma Vamboi Aka The Insider Many in the political circle are advocating vehemently for the immediate ban of Julius Maada Bio from any political activity in Sierra Leone. The […]

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SLPP Man livid with anger over murder of party fanatic by alleged Maada Bio supporter

May 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The police force in Sierra Leone should not dismiss the persistent and continuing violence and murders perpetrated by supporters of the 2012 failed presidential candidate of Sierra Leone people’s party […]

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Maada Bio condemns intra-party violence within the SLPP ; Says he believes in ‘peaceful democratic competition ‘

May 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Aspiring opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party presidential flagbearer, Retired Brigadier Maada Bio has issued a statement to condemn yesterday’s killing of a supporter of the SLPP  by another SLPP  fanatic, […]

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SLPP kills SLPP : Public fears heighten that SLPP intra-party feuds will undermine peace and security in Sierra Leone

May 28, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

This was how the harrowing news was reported to the public yesterday in the social media . Head of police in Eastern ‪#‎SierraLeone‬ says  that one person has been stabbed […]

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  THE DANGERS OF IRRATIONAL POLITICAL FANATICISM As the all-important General Elections draw closer, emotions are certain to boil over in Sierra Leone and the diaspora, especially  among political fanatics, […]

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Today—Saturday June 24, 2023– is polling day  in Sierra Leone and voting has started , despite chaos and delays in some polling stations. According to reports being received by COCORIOKO,  […]

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  We were sitting down in our veranda when we heard a large group of men coming, some in vehicles and others walking , holding sticks and matchets, singing provocative […]

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