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Month: August 2017

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Kono Conference: Papering over the cracks or genuine and lasting solutions?

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

  Sahr Musa Yamba ponders… As the Konos converge on Washington DC to chart a way forward for the land that we all love so well, I am left in […]

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Why it is hallucinatory for any coalition to make any mark in the 2018 elections

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

There are obvious reasons why it is hallucinatory for any coalition to make any mark in the 2018 elections. The human mind takes a he long time to have information […]

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ONS Presents SPEC Conceptual Framework to President Koroma

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

By State House Communication Unit The Office of National Security (ONS) on Tuesday 1st August 2017 presented President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma the Conceptual Framework of the Special Presidential Committee […]

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Hon Buya Kamara, 2 others in China on Shandong Steel’s invitation

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

A delegation of three, amongst them, Mr. Raymond Moshe Roberts, Board Chairman of the National Mineral Agency (NMA) and head of delegation, and Hon. Buya Kamara, a Board Director of […]

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Opening New Frontiers of Cooperation : Excerpt from a speech delivered by Madam Kumba Momoh at an event marking 46 years of diplomatic between Sierra Leone and China

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

Mrs. Kumba Alice Momoh- PR China Forty-six (46) years ago today, 29th July, 2017, the Republic of Sierra Leone and the People’s Republic of China entered into diplomatic relations at […]

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Osman Yansaneh awarded honorary PH.D

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

By M.B. JALLOH : Alhaji Dr. Osman Foday Yansaneh, Secretary General of the ruling APC Party was on the 28th July awarded with an honorary PhD degree by the Common […]

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY FACILITATES RETURN OF 13 SIERRA LEONEAN DOCTORS

August 1, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Freetown, Republic of Sierra Leone PRESS RELEASE FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY FACILITATES RETURN OF 13 SIERRA LEONEAN DOCTORS The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and […]

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JOINT PRESS RELEASE : Babies and mothers worldwide failed by lack of investment in breastfeeding

August 1, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

JOINT PRESS RELEASE  Babies and mothers worldwide failed by lack of investment in breastfeeding New analysis shows an investment of US$4.70 per newborn could generate US$300 billion in economic gains […]

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University of London Honours Dr Sarah Bendu

August 1, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Elias Bangura It was a historic day for Sierra Leone, as one of her illustrious and result-oriented daughters, Dr Sarah Finda Bendu, was awarded a honorary doctorate degree […]

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Henry Fergusson School Heritage Club performs Harvest Cultural Dance

August 1, 2017 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU 0

  By Mohamed Faray Kargbo Clad in traditional Temne folk costumes, the celebrants shook their bodies with unimaginable swiftness. As the drums beat, so does the dancers. The festival attracted […]

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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
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  • 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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PRESS RELEASE :  Sierra Leone’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, H.E. Ambassador, Shekou Momodou Touray, on Wednesday, 21st July, 2010, accompanied by the Deputy Permanent Representative for Political Affairs, […]

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MAJOR RESHUFFLE BY PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA

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  PRESS RELEASE THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT IN REVIEWING THE OVERALL GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE, IT HAS PLEASED HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA TO ANNOUNCE THE […]

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GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE IMPROVING LIVES OF FARMERS THROUGH THE SMALLHOLDER COMMERCIALIZATION PROJECT

May 31, 2017 0

GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE IMPROVING LIVES OF FARMERS THROUGH THE SMALL HOLDER COMMERCIALIZATION PROJECT By KABS KANU The Government of President Ernest Bai Koroma is making farming a lucrative enterprise […]

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