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Month: November 2016

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At AU Peace and Security Council Retreat, Ambassador Kamara calls for practical strategies to end conflicts in Africa

November 10, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

 The 9th Retreat of the African Union Peace and Security Council commenced on Monday 7th November, 2016 at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka, Zambia. The theme of the […]

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DFID Secretary of State extols recovery process

November 9, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By State House Communication Unit Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for International Development (DFID) the Right Hon. Priti Sushil Patel Tuesday November 8 praised the President’s Recovery Priority […]

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VOICE FROM MATEBOI : November 7! A day of reflection

November 9, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

November 7! A day of reflection    By Jonathan Abass Kamara The upsurge in the March 23, 1991 Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Foday Sankoh led rebel war claimed the lives […]

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LAST NIGHT’S LESSON : TRUST NOTHING

November 9, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Nothing is infallible. Only God is. In 1923 , the people built a ship called the TITANIC and even the builders bragged that nothing can sink it. They even […]

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SACKED VICE PRESIDENT SAM SUMANA SHOT HIMSELF!

November 9, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Tony Bee-Conteh, Sydney, Australia   A handsome and young good  looking gentlemen man call Alhaji Sam Sumana shot himself in the foot (exiled himself for ever) without anybody […]

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A SIERRA LEONE VICTORY AT THE UN: Sierra Leonean Legal Luminary elected to the International Law Commission (ILC)

November 8, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU: Sierra Leone was handed a significant victory at the United Nations on Friday November 3rd, 2016 when one of her citizens, Legal scholar and luminary, Charles Chernoh Jalloh — […]

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NEWS FLASH : Sierra Leone’s Permanent Representative Adikalie Sumah addresses UN General Assembly on Security Council Reform

November 7, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU : The Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, H.E. Ambassador Adikalie Foday Sumah, today delivered a statement at the UN General Assembly during the […]

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AS AMERICA STANDS STILL, RECALLING THE MOST DRAMATIC ELECTIONS EVER IN SIERRA LEONE IN 1967

November 7, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By KABS KANU: Culled from the Cocorioko Facebook Forum : The feverish climax to America’s elections approach and since I cannot participate, why not reminiscence the most dramatic elections we […]

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President Koroma addresses nation on first anniversary of declaration of end of ebola

November 7, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

STATEMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE ON THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF THE END OF THE EBOLA OUTBREAK IN […]

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Sierra Leone High Commission in Nigeria joins in commemoration of November 7, 2015

November 7, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By : Alusine Mohamed Fofanah, Sierra Leone High Commission, Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria. Staff of the Sierra Leone High Commission led by Her Excellency Ambassador Haja Afsatu Olayinka Ebishola […]

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