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Thirteen Euro Cargo Trucks to Boost MOHS Drugs Distribution and Supply Chain System

January 27, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By: Jonathan Abass Kamara The Global Fund has supported the Ministry of Health and Sanitation with 13 Euro Cargo IVECO brand Trucks to boost its drugs distribution and supply chain […]

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US$149m for reliable electricity supply in the Western Area

January 27, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Government of Sierra Leone, the Project Sponsors and the World Bank Group on Monday (January 23) officially executed the project and finance documents for the CECA Sierra Leone […]

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After 22 years, First Batch of Peace Corps Volunteers in Sierra Leone

January 27, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Jonathan Abass Kamara The history of Peace Corps Volunteers in Sierra Leone is dated as far back as the sixties and beyond. Most of the learning institutions between […]

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THE LAST WEEK IN POLITICS

January 27, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray Philadelphia The last week in world politics  can be  phenomenal; it normally heralds true reflections of your past deeds, legacies and the loss of some your […]

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Ambassador Amadu Koroma addresses Doha Retreat on UN Security Council Reform

January 26, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

A two day retreat, 14th and 15th January, 2017 was organized in the city of Doha by the State of Qatar and it provided a forum for key stakeholders including […]

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Sierra Leone and the APC should honour a resilient President : Ambassador Felix Koroma

January 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BY KABS KANU : Sierra Leone’s Deputy Permanent Representative for Legal Affairs, Ambassador Felix Koroma, has called on the nation and the ruling All People’s Congress ( APC )  to […]

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Sierra Leone’s Foreign Minister Samura Kamara meets President of the UN General Assembly and IGN Co-Chairs

January 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

BY KABS KANU : Sierra Leone’s  Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Samura Kamara,  on Monday January 23, 2017  met with the President of the United Nations General […]

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Is the New Year a time of reflection or new resolution period ?

January 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Tony Bee, Sydney, Australia New year to me, it is a time to look back at both what we have done throughout the twelve (12) months and also […]

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STATEMENT OF NCD CHAIRMAN AT THE PRESENTATION OF ITS ANNUAL REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT AT STATE HOUSE

January 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  STATEMENT OF NCD CHAIRMAN AT THE PRESENTATION OF ITS ANNUAL REPORT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE AT STATE HOUSE ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 23rd, […]

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President Koroma receives CRC Final Report

January 25, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By State House Communication Unit  The Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) today (January 24, 2017) presented its final report to His Excellency President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma at State House in […]

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  • An idiot’s guide to winning an election
  • The Crumbling House: APC’s Internal Chaos and the Systematic Marginalization of Political Pluralism in Sierra Leone
  • For corruption : Sierra Leone suspended from all IMF programs
  • Sierra Leone will defend herself to the last against Guinea, if necessary– Interior Minister
  • Taking the Mining discourse to another level:  Patriotism Must Be Grounded in Reality:
  • Big losses for Sierra Leone media: Accident claims lives of SLBC camera journalist and female intern
  • The Battle for Hearts and Minds Descends into The Abyss of Moral Politic, Witch-hunt and Gas lighting
  • The Voice Returns: Christiana Kamara Stuns Sierra Leone in Her Triumphant Return with Bormeh.
  • The FBC students union and NUSS used to be very potent institutions fighting for the welfare of Sierra Leoneans, but today……
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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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Published on December 31, 2010 by Cocorioko News   ·   No Comments Sierra Leonean-born legal luminary, Dr. Abdulai Conteh , recently retired as Chief Justice of the Caribbean Island nation of […]

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