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Sierra Leone Calls for Peace between Israel and Palestine

August 6, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Sierra Leone Embassy, Riyadh   Sierra Leone has urged the resumption of talks on the two- state solution as the sustainable path to […]

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*Ambassador Felix A. Koroma has been certified as a United Nations Fellow in International Law at the Hague Academy.*

August 6, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  The Ambassador/Deputy Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations has been officially certified and recognized as a United Nations Fellow in International Law at the Hague Academy […]

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PROTECTING OUR HERITAGE

August 6, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  Turning And Turning In The Widening Gyre The Falcon Cannot Hear The Falconer Things Fall Apart, The Center Cannot Hold Meer Anarchy Is Loosed Upon The World   —– […]

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Brexit offers Sierra Leone chance to reassess the aid relationship

August 4, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By John Bonoh Sisay August 2, 2017 Brexit will undoubtedly affect the UK’s donor relationship with Sierra Leone, but this debate takes away from the crucial issue: improving trade. A […]

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Njala University responds to Dr. Kandeh Yumkella

August 4, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

The negative public outburst of Dr Kandeh. K. Yumkella with respect to training in Peace Studies, a discipline that is growing at an alarming rate globally, exposes his inefficiency to […]

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OPPOSITION POLITICIANS ARE OUT OF STEP WITH THE ISSUES FACING ORDINARY PEOPLE

August 4, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Titus Boye-Thompson, Communications ConsultantLooking at the very recent past, we see opposition politicians sounding offbeat as if they are out of step with reality and the practical issues that people […]

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President Koroma practices what he preaches

August 4, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

By Ranger President Koroma’s commissioning of the Solar Mini-Grid at Lungi last week-end saw a vivid display of his passion (Local Content Policy) encapsulated in the President’s Recovery Priorities. He […]

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PRESS RELEASE : President Koroma and Head of UK Aid Commission a New Solar Electricity Facility at Conakry Dee

August 4, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Conakry Dee, 28 July 2017: On Friday His Excellency President Ernest Bia Koroma, joined by Sally Taylor, Head of UK aid in Sierra Leone, commissioned one of 50 solar electricity […]

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PHOTO STORY : President Koroma introduces former head 0f state Strasser and VP Berewa to visiting Ivorian President

August 3, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

President Koroma introduces former VP Solomon Berewa and former Head of State Captain (Rtd) Valentine Strasser to Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara at State House in Freetown.

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Prospective Opposition flagbearer’s thoughtless remark about university course stirs chaos

August 3, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Words when not carefully said have the potential to set the whole world of the speaker on fire. Words are a loaded pistol. If not cautiously used, it could hurt […]

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  • UPDATE!!! Uneasy Calm Returns to Central Freetown After Ojeh-Linked Tensions
  • Guinea expands illegal occupation of Yenga, opens fire on residents and forces everybody to flee
  • True Independence and Freedom can only exist in doing what is right
  • Video : Sierra Leone gains Independence from Britain and the 1961 Royal Visit
  • Reflections on Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary : A nation still in waiting
  • There will never be world peace until imperialism is dead : Hands off Ibrahim Traore
  • Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary Poem by Nicholas Godwin
  • Sierra Leone at 64 : A nation at the crossroads of reflection and regret
  • 64 years after Sierra Leone’s Independence : Sierra Leone’s ongoing struggles and the road to renewal
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Sierra Leone Assumes Chairmanship of the African Union Peace and Security Council [PSC] for the month of June 2018

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  By Jonathan Las-Lamin On Friday 1st June, 2018 the Republic of Sierra Leone assumed the leadership of the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) and held its first […]

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COPPP slams SLPP Government for sham census, boundary delimitation, proportional representation , growing ethnic tension and national security

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By KABS KANU : JINGLE BELLS, JANGLED NERVES Christmas has come and gone, showing that nothing lasts forever . However sweet or sour, all things ultimately come to an end. […]

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