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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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Saluting Sierra Leone’s doctors who succumbed to the Ebola attack

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

PROVIDED BY SULAIMAN FORNAH T0day , as Sierra Leone commemorates the first anniversary of the declaration of the end of the ebola outbreak in the country, we want to salute […]

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APC – Denmark to be launched on November 26

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

By KABS KANU November 26, 2016 will be another great day in the history of the ruling All People’s Congress ( APC ) as the party’s newest branch  will be […]

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Shandong Iron and Steel Group to pump $700 million in iron ore project in Sierra Leone

November 6, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By State House Communication Unit The Vice Chairman of China Iron and Steel Association, Hou Jun has said that USD$ 700 million will be utilized for the construction of processing […]

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Ambassador Kamara designated to Chair the AU Peace and Security Council Retreat on Silencing the Guns in Africa by the Year 2020

November 6, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

A massive international and diplomatic honor has been accorded  one of Sierra Leone’s Ambassadors. H.E.  Mr. Osman Keh Kamara,  Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, has […]

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SLAJ Begins Popularisation of Code of Ethics : ‘This will be our Bible to guide our practice as professional journalists’

November 6, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Ahmed Sahid Nasralla (De Monk) THE ULTIMATE CHOICE: journalist or politician? Sierra Leonean journalists may now have to decide whether they are indeed journalists or politicians as the crucial […]

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SLPP, stop weaponizing the justice system : Free Zainab Sheriff now

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SLPP , STOP WEAPONIZING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM : FREE ZAINAB SHERIFF NOW — WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS By Kabs Kanu The continued detention of popular singer Zainab Sheriff raises serious and troubling […]

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It is deeply troubling when the same system that imprisons individuals for so-called “inciting statements” turns silent when far more dangerous words come from the highest office in the land. […]

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MCC Team Visits President Koroma

October 26, 2016 0

MCC Team Visits President Koroma Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Dana J. Hyde and team on Friday October 22 paid a courtesy call on President […]

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President Bio’s tribalism is endangering the Mende tribe in Sierra Leone, says a Mende man

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YANKUBA KAI-SAMBA A paopa had asked me, in their controlled whatapp forum to take a DNA test to prove that I am a mende. This was after I warned that […]

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State House accused by Police Commander of ordering joint Police/Army raid at Mile 91 that led to fatal shooting of 29 year old young man

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With the British Parliament expected to consider human rights abuses in Sierra Leone since President Maada Bio came to power in March and massive demonstrations being planned in New York […]

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HINGA NORMAN : A LIFE TIME OF POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES … and life on a knife’s edge………

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  HINGA NORMAN : A PLAQUE OF INFAMY OR HEROISM ?  Wilfred Kabs- Kanu looks at a  jolly man whose political lifestyle has embodied controversy so far…..   The name […]

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HOLDING OUR ELECTORAL PROCESSES TO ACCOUNT

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By: Winstanley. R. Bankole. Johnson           With the benefit of hindsight it is now appearing that the recruitments of the former Statistics Sierra Leone (SSL) Commissioner Prof. […]

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