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Ambassador Kamara Clarifies the Smear Campaign over the Kuwaiti House Maids Issue

May 24, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  I.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States   The issue of maltreatment of Sierra Leonean House maids in the State of Kuwait is a subject that […]

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Why And How The SLPP Lost Power In Sierra Leone

May 23, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

POSTED BY: PUBLISHER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER KABS KANU MAY 23, 2016 By Idrissa Conteh : How and Why the Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP )  Lost Power 1) […]

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Sierra Leone hosts its first ever international women’s conference

May 23, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Posted By: Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU May 23, 2016 By Anthony Bangura : Honourable Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, Minister of Social Welfare, Gender & Children’s Affairs, […]

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Ambassador Ismael Koroma In New York To Attend Important Meeting At UN Security Council

May 23, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

POSTED BY: PUBLISHER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER KABS KANU MAY 22, 2016   The Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the African Union in Addis […]

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SIERRA LEONE EMBASSY STAFF DIES IN SAUDI

May 23, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Sierra Leone Embassy and the Sierra Leone Community in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia received with utter shock and dismay the death of Alhaji Mohamed Mustapha Sowa, an employee […]

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THE WORLD IS NOT BECOMING SAFER ?

May 21, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Posted By: Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU May 21, 2016 Airplanes are the safest means of transportation . You are one million times more likely to die in […]

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Egyptair plane from Paris to Cairo with 69 onboard disappears from radar

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

EGYPTAIR Flight MS  804  traveling from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar in Egyptian airspace. FULL STORY COMING.

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United States Extends “Food for Education” Project in Koinadugu District

May 18, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The Minister of Education, Science and Technology officially launched ‘All Pikin for Learn’, a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) “Food For Education” program in partnership with Catholic Relief Services […]

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“What is Muunku?”

May 18, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

“What is Muunku?” It is none of your business. This is the worst type of “witty repartee” one could satirically ascertain to any situation. Can you imagine what type of […]

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When Our Hundreds Of Students Abroad Return Home…

May 18, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

John Baimba Sesay-China Deng Xiaoping was an influential Chinese leader from the late 1970s until his death in 1997. He played an active role in China’s economic reform. He was […]

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  • Crisis in Parliament : Neutrality undermined or opposition rebrand ?
  • Sierra Leoneans thumb down creation of new districts and dividing of Freetown
  • WHY FORGIVENESS MUST BE PART OF SIERRA LEONE’S POLITICAL FUTURE
  • Freetown Doesn’t Need a New “City” – It Needs Accountability and Inclusion
  • Karpowership says it is willing to work with government to stave off looming big electricity blackout crisis
  • Sierra Leone about to be plunged into total darkness as Karpowership decides to cut off electricity because of SLPP Government’s failure to pay debt
  • Fugitive Bank Governor Kelfala Kallon to be arrested if he insists on being paid in dollars : Trapped by his own regulation
  • Opposition APC MPs Suspend Participation from all activities and Committees in Sierra Leone Parliament_*
  • The silence of Bio-led SLPP Government on U.S visa ban is very dangerous—MP says
  • In A War Of Egos, The Loser Always Wins.
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  • Phebean Samura: Watch and see what will happen soon. Sierra Leone will be a Democratic country very soon. FORGET ABOUT 2028. WE…
  • Catherine Higgins: Remarkable how journalists can write about APC and what not... but you never seem to have the spine to demand…
  • Amadu M. Kamara: Comment no. 2 above continues thusly: if the firebrand do seriously intend indeed to show their numerical strength versus the…

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Sierra Leoneans thumb down creation of new districts and dividing of Freetown

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The government’s decision to create new districts—without clear legal backing, public consultation, or economic justification—appears politically driven and constitutionally questionable. It threatens: • Domestic democratic stability, • Economic sustainability, and […]

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U.S. Mission to African Union : Criminals who committed violent acts against American democracy will be held accountable

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LUSAKA – The United States Congress has completed its Constitutionally mandated count of the Electoral College vote and affirmed the election of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Kamala D. Harris as […]

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Warning to Victor Sylver, Editor of the Sierra Herald

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Warning to Victor Sylver, Editor of the Sierra Herald  15 April 2008 at 01:42 |  1309 views From Cocorioko newspaper, October 2006. By Rev. Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu. My attention has been drawn to […]

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Sierra Leone to go back into a three-day lock down

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Sierra Leone said Thursday it will confine around 2.5 million people to their homes across the capital and in the north in a three-day shutdown aimed at stemming the Ebola […]

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Single Leg Amputees Thrilled Audience At Gullah Festival in South Carolina USA

May 25, 2014 0

Six Members of the Sierra Leone single leg Amputee Soccer Association including Musa Mansaray, Jusu Vandi, Susan Davies, Albert Manley Mustapha and Jabati Mambu, Mambud Samai who are currently in […]

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You can’t build a peaceful nation on empty stomachs and human misery

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By Abdulai Mansaray It is an open secret that the price of goods and especially food stuff worldwide, has skyrocketed in the past two years. Many see these changes as […]

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